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Ellen Terry, Shakespeare, and suffrage in Australia and New Zealand / Kate Flaherty.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) PN2598.T4 F56 2025
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Flaherty, Kate (Kathryn J.), author.
- Series:
- Cambridge elements. Women theatre makers
- Women theatre makers
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Terry, Ellen, Dame, 1847-1928--Travel--Australia.
- Terry, Ellen.
- Terry, Ellen, Dame, 1847-1928--Travel--New Zealand.
- Actresses--Great Britain--Biography.
- Actresses.
- Women--Suffrage--Australia--History.
- Women.
- Women--Suffrage--New Zealand--History.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 64 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- "While the life and career of Ellen Terry (1847-1928) has attracted decades of attention from theatre historians and feminist biographers, one chapter remains hidden: Terry's tour of her solo 'Shakespeare lectures' to Australia and New Zealand in 1914. This bold venture, made at the age of sixty-six, has been interpreted as an indication of Terry's declining physical and mental health following her 1906 Jubilee. Yet Terry claimed that 'while in Australia, although a woman, I am permitted to be a person', testifying affinity with the geopolitical region in which women had already achieved the right to vote in federal elections and to run for parliament. This Element undertakes the first comprehensive examination of the 1914 tour to reveal Terry's professional agency, her creative autonomy, her skilful navigation of ageist sexism, her eager receptivity to new natural environments, and her friendship with international opera star, Nellie Melba"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- 'Not all there' : age and distance
- 'Alone with Shakespeare'
- 'Permitted to be a person' : Terry and women's suffrage
- 'Australia is a garden' : Terry and Melba
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Flaherty, Kate (Kathryn J.). Ellen Terry, Shakespeare, and suffrage in Australia and New Zealand
- ISBN:
- 9781009559294
- 100955929X
- 9781009559331
- 1009559338
- OCLC:
- 1484995691
- Publisher Number:
- CIPO000195831
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