Women and playwriting in nineteenth-century Britain
By: edited by Tracy C. Davis and Ellen Donkin.
Contributors: Davis, Tracy C., 1960-; Donkin, Ellen, 1949-
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Cambridge, U.K; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
Subjects: English drama -- Women authors -- History and criticism.; Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.; English drama -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: The sociable playwright and representative citizen / Tracy C. Davis; value: To be public as a genius and private as a woman / Gay Gibson Cima; value: Mrs. Gore gives tit for tat / Ellen Donkin; value: Jane Scott, the writer/manager / Jacky Bratton; value: Illusions of authorship / Jane Moody; value: Sarah Lane / Jim Davis; value: Staging the state / Beth H. Friedman-Romell; value: The lady playwrights and the wild tribes of the East / Heidi J. Holder; value: From a female pen / Katherine Newey; value: Genre trouble / Susan Bennett; value: Sappho in the closet / Denise A. Walen; value: Conflicted politics and circumspect comedy / Susan Carlson.