A woman of extraordinary energy, talent and versatility. Elizabeth Robins was an actress who popularised Ibsen on the British stage, a prolific and popular writer of novels and non-fiction, and an Edwardian suffragette. Her extensive circle of friends included Florence Bell, Henry James, John Masefield and William Archer. She worked with the Pankhursts and knew the Woolfs. Through examining the life and work of this vivid and transatlantic figure born during the American Civil War yet surviving into the England of the 1950s, Angela John raises questions about the shaping of historical identities. Situating Elizabeth Robins's achievement in the context of the British and American cultural history of the period, this is a book which will attract historians, teachers and students of theatre studies and all those fascinated by biography.

Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life: 1862-1952

John, Prof Angela V

John, Angela V.

Humor & Entertainment

Routledge

In the nineteenth century the rapidly expanding coal industry was the key to Britain's industrial growth. The workforce consisted not only of men, but also of thousands of coalmining women, who mined, sorted and transported the coal. Angela John looks at the lives and struggles of these women, and their fight in the 1880s to keep their jobs at the pit. She focuses on the contrasting careers of two women from very different backgrounds: Jane Brown, a Lancashire pit lass; and campaigner Margaret Park, and Mayoress of Wigan. Through the campaign, the author throws new light on Victorian attitudes to working women, and working conditions in general in a major nineteenth-century industry.

Coalmining Women: Victorian Lives and Campaigns (Women in History)

History

Europe

Cambridge University Press

This lively volume - the first devoted to Welsh women's history - rescues the submerged lives of women over the last two centuries from oblivion, and uses their varied histories to redefine Wales as not merely 'the land of our fathers'.What was the role of women in enforcing the rural community's sanctions against adulterers? What impression of women's lives is given by the Welsh-language periodicals of the last century? How did women organize in the temperance associations and the suffrage movement? What toll did women's work in the coal communities take? Did the Welsh 'Mam' survive into the inter-war period? These are some of the questions addressed by the contributors to this volume.

Our Mothers' Land: Chapters in Welsh Women's History, 1830 1939

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

University of Wales Press

Originally published in 1991, and made available once again in this new edition, Our Mothers’ Landhad been a pioneering text in the then-nascent field of Welsh women’s history. Ranging widely across both time and place, the book explores the many different lifestyles of Welsh women and also addresses the idealized image of Welsh women presented in periodicals, as well as the transgressive actions of advocates for suffrage.

Our Mothers' Land: Chapters in Welsh Women’s History, 1830-1939 (Gender Studies in Wales)

Women's Studies

By the sweat of their brow: Women workers at Victorian coal mines

Business & Money

Economics

Routledge& Kegan Paul

This biography draws extensively on Elizabeth Robins' diaries, letters and other sources. Her career spanned writing, producing, directing and acting.

Elizabeth Robins

The History Press

Lady Charlotte (1812-95) was one of the successful women of the 19th century. She married Josiah John Guest and moved from Lincolnshire to industrial South Wales. Through her life, this text explores the impact of industrialisation on British society, Wales' literary heritage and the importance of gender in Victorian society.

Lady Charlotte Guest

Biographies & Memoirs

Guest, Revel

Historical

Tempus Publishing Ltd.

Croom Helm

Called 'the king of Correspondents', Henry W. Nevinson (1856-1941) captured the political zeitgeist in his newspaper journalism and books about conflicts across the globe. He provided astute, first-hand observations on events such as war between Greece and Turkey, the Siege of Ladysmith in South Africa, the aftermath of the 1905 Russian Revolution and the Gallipoli tragedy in the First World War, his copy obtained in perilous situations. He bravely exposed the persistence of slavery in Angola, unrest in India and conflict in Ireland, his vivid and exquisite prose shocking and enlightening British readers. He cultivated controversy with his brave stance on issues like women's suffrage and the self-determination of small nations such as Georgia. His first wife, Margaret Wynne Nevinson, was a suffragette and writer, their son the celebrated artist C.R. W. Nevinson. In the 1920s Henry Nevinson accompanied Ramsay MacDonald on the first visit of a British Prime Minister to an American President. His perspectives, whether on the Middle East, the Balkans, Russia or the United States, illuminate many of the conflicts which resonate in today's uncertain world.

War, Journalism and the Shaping of the Twentieth Century: The Life and Times of Henry W. Nevinson

Military

Bloomsbury Academic

Henry Nevison was a renowned British war correspondent (1856 - 1941) who keenly observed the dramatic political and military conflicts of his day. This book is the first major biography, drawing together his commentary over a period of fifty years. In diaries and print , Nevinson tracked wars from Greece to South Africa and covered the key events of the First World War. He exposed slavery in the Portuguese Empire, championed women's suffrage, struggles in Ireland and the Balkans and visited Palestine, Iraq and the US in the 1920s. Nevinson's original perspectives help to explain the modern world order and the political conflicts of today.

I.B.Tauris

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