Women and playwriting in nineteenth-century Britain / edited by Tracy C. Davis and Ellen Donkin.
| Other author | Davis, Tracy C., 1960- |
| Other author | Donkin, Ellen, 1949- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999. |
| Description | xvi, 295 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | The sociable playwright and representative citizen / Tracy C. Davis -- "To be public as a genius and private as a woman" / Gay Gibson Cima -- Mrs. Gore gives tit for tat / Ellen Donkin -- Jane Scott the writer-manager / Jacky Bratton -- Illusions of authorship / Jane Moody -- Sarah Lane / Jim Davis -- Staging the state / Beth H. Friedman-Romell -- The "lady playwrights" and the "wild tribes of the East" / Heidi J. Holder -- "From a female pen" / Katherine Newey -- Genre trouble / Susan Bennett -- Sappho in the closet / Denise A. Walen -- Conflicted politics and circumspect comedy / Susan Carlson. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 98038099 |
| ISBN | 0521574137 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 0521659825 (paperback) |