Kitty Marion

Actor and Activist

Viv Gardner, Diane Atkinson (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

296 Seiten

2019
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-3804-0 (ISBN)

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This is the unpublished autobiography of Kitty Marion, an actress, music hall performer, suffragette arsonist and campaigner in the American birth control movement.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. -- .

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. -- .

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

List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
The Editors
List of abbreviations
Introduction
The Autobiography
1. Germany
2. England
3. Militant Suffrage
4. War
5. ‘Hail Columbia’
6. Birth Control
7. Peace
Epilogue
Appendix I: Home Office Papers: Prison Reports
Appendix II: Prison Letters
Appendix III: Home Office: Citizenship Reports
Select Bibliography
Index -- .

Erscheinungsdatum	12.07.2019
Reihe/Serie	Women, Theatre and Performance
Zusatzinfo	15 black & white illustrations
Verlagsort	Manchester
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	635 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-5261-3804-2 / 1526138042
ISBN-13	978-1-5261-3804-0 / 9781526138040
Zustand	Neuware