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Kitty Marion: Actor and Activist

(Hardback)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

Kitty Marion: Actor and Activist

Contributors:

By (Author) Viv Gardner
Edited by Diane Atkinson

ISBN:

9781526138040

Publisher:

Manchester University Press

Imprint:

Manchester University Press

Publication Date:

28th February 2019

Country:

United Kingdom

Classifications

Readership:

General

Dewey:

792.028092

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Hardback

Number of Pages:

296

Dimensions:

Width 156mm, Height 234mm

Description

This is the npublished autobiography of Kitty Marion, an actress, music hall performer, suffragette arsonist and campaigner in the American birth control movement. Written in the 1930s, Marion's story of activism offers a unique insight into a lifetime dedicated to the improvement of women's lives in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. -- .

Author Bio

Viv Gardner is Professor Emerita at the University of Manchester, and is a theatre and performance historian, focusing on gender and sexuality at the fin de sicle

Diane Atkinson is an independent scholar and author of three biographies and two illustrated two books on the suffragettes

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