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Kitty Marion : actor and activist / Kitty Marion ; edited by Viv Gardner and Diane Atkinson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Marion, Kitty, author.
- Series:
- Women, theatre and performance.
- Women, theatre and performance
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Marion, Kitty.
- Actresses--Germany--Biography.
- Actresses.
- Suffragists--Germany--Biography..
- Suffragists.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (282 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- The autobiography of Kitty Marion was written in the early 1930s but never published. It records Marion's childhood in Germany, her life in British provincial theatre and music hall and her campaigns against the 'casting couch', a career as a militant suffragist or suffragette during which she committed numerous acts of arson, was imprisoned and suffered force feeding, and finally her move to America and involvement in the American birth control movement. The Epilogue details her life in New York after the end of the autobiography, including her work in the Federal Theatre Project, while the three appendices reproduce extracts from key archive documents which throw additional light on the autobiography. An Introduction outlines the problems Marion incurred trying to publish her story, its subsequent history and addresses some of the issues that her story raises about women's history of activism.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- The editors
- Series editors foreword
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- The Autobiography
- Germany
- England
- Militant suffrage
- War
- Hail Columbia!
- Birth control
- Peace
- Epilogue: New York
- Appendix I
- Appendix II
- Appendix III
- Select bibliography
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Mar 2026).
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 280-282).
- ISBN:
- 9781526138064
- 1526138069
- 9781526138057
- 1526138050
- OCLC:
- 1121654434
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