Cicely Hamilton: 5 books
Votes for Women
and Other Plays
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
The best collection of suffrage plays on offer
Introduced and set in historical context by Dr Susan Croft, formerly Curator at the Theatre Museum in London, with a chronology of suffrage drama from 1907-1914.
The astonishing women involved in the Actresses Franchise League set up their...
by Cicely Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 1909
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 1909
In "Marriage as a Trade" Hamilton asserts that "woman, as we know her to-day, is largely a manufactured product; that the particular qualities which are supposed to be inherent in her and characteristic of her sex are often enough nothing more than the characteristics of a repressed class and the entirely artificial result of her surroundings and training."
The Methuen Drama Book of Suffrage Plays
How the Vote Was Won, Lady Geraldine’s Speech, Pot and Kettle, Miss Appleyard’s Awakening, Her Vote, The Mother’s Meeting, The Anti-Suffragist or The Other Side, Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
The Methuen Drama Book of Suffrage Plays is an anthology of eight exciting pieces written for and by members of the Actresses Franchise League from 1909-13. Immediately playable, they offer strong, varied roles for female casts, while also providing invaluable source material to students and scholars...
by Cicely Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
The love of man and woman is, no doubt, a thing of infinite importance; but also of infinite importance is the manner in which woman earns her bread and the economic conditions under which she enters the family and propagates the race. Thus an inquiry into the circumstances under which the wife and...
by Cicely Mary Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2009
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