Women's playwriting and the women's movement, 1890-1918 /

"The influence of the women's movement has long been a scholarly priority in the study of British women's drama of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, but previous scholarship has largely clustered around two events: the New Woman in the 1890s and the suffrage campaign...

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Main Author: Farkas, Anna, 1983- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.
Series:Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies
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