Kitty Marion (eBook)

Actor and activist

Diane Atkinson, Viv Gardner (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-3806-4 (ISBN)

Infos

With the outbreak of World War I, German-born Kitty Marion, suspected of being a German spy and placed under surveillance, sailed from Liverpool for New York. She left a dramatic and colourful life behind: a hectic and fascinating 20-year career as a performer crisscrossing Britain first as a singer, dancer and actress on the musical comedy and pantomime stage, and then in music hall as a 'refined comedienne'. She campaigned against the sexual abuses rife in the theatre of the day which led her eventually into the suffragette movement where she became a 'notorious' militant, responsible for numerous acts of arson. She was imprisoned, went on hunger-strike, and was force-fed more than 300-times. In America, she became a celebrated 'foot-soldier' in Margaret Sanger's birth control movement. Her autobiography, written in the 1930s is published here for the first time.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.6.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Women, Theatre and Performance
• Verlagsort: Manchester
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Schlagworte: Actresses Franchise League • birth control movement • Force feeding • kitty marion • Music Hall • Suffragette • Theatre • WSPU
• ISBN-10: 1-5261-3806-9 / 1526138069
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5261-3806-4 / 9781526138064