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Metafiction and Metahistory in Contemporary Women's Writing

Metafiction and Metahistory in Contemporary Women's Writing

A. Heilmann

3 Rowbotham, Hidden from History, p. xxxvi. 4 Tracy C. Davis and Ellen Donkin, ' Introduction' to Tracy C. Davis and Ellen Donkin (eds) Women and Playwriting in Nineteenth-Century Britain (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999), p. 3.
Female Playwrights and Eighteenth-Century Comedy: ...

Female Playwrights and Eighteenth-Century Comedy: ...

M. Anderson

4. Covent Garden was willing to produce plays by Behn, Centlivre, and Pix, but proved much more reticent to launch new careers. See Ellen Donkin, Getting Into The Act 60. 5. The Letters of David Garrick, ed. Little and Kahrl, 3: 1172, no. 1109.
Getting Into the Act: Women Playwrights in London 1776-1829

Getting Into the Act: Women Playwrights in London 1776-1829

Ellen Donkin

Getting Into the Act is a vigorous and refreshing account of seven female playwrights who, against all odds, enjoyed professional success in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century.
Glorious Causes: The Grand Theatre of Political Change, 1789 ...

Glorious Causes: The Grand Theatre of Political Change, 1789 ...

Julia Swindells

As Ellen Donkin demonsttates in het book about women playwtights. the theattical telationships of the petiod ate chatactetized by these attangements, which catty ovet ftom the household to the ptofessional sphete.1 Two of the most influential ...
Upstaging Big Daddy: Directing Theater as If Gender and Race ...

Upstaging Big Daddy: Directing Theater as If Gender and Race ...

Ellen Donkin

For the feminist director, as Gay Gibson Cima shows, subverting one of these plays is an attractive proposition for a number of reasons. One very practical reason is that it widens the field and makes it possible to rethink a preplanned season of ...
Blue Book

Blue Book

New South Wales

Donaldson Robert Donkin John Bloyd .... .. Donkin Rev. Thos., B.D. Donnelly Stephen A. Dooner Patrick .......... .. Doran John ............. .. Dougall Rev. John Dowe G. L. ............. .. Dowe Joshua .......... .. Dowling James Sheen .. Dowling Reginald .
Rival Queens: Actresses, Performance, and the ...

Rival Queens: Actresses, Performance, and the ...

Felicity Nussbaum

Ellen Donkin, Getting into the Act: Women Playwrights in London, 1776–1829 ( New York: Routledge, 1995), counts 28 playwrights in this period, but more women writers' works did not reach the stage. 21. Frances Burney, The Witlings and the ...
Women and Playwriting in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Women and Playwriting in Nineteenth-Century Britain

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Tracy C. Davis, Ellen Donkin. I'fBl.ISHEl) BY THE PRESS SYNDICATE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE Il1c Pitt Building. Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 IRP. United Kingdom CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS The Edinburgh ...
Women in British Romantic Theatre: Drama, Performance, and ...

Women in British Romantic Theatre: Drama, Performance, and ...

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59-73); "Jane Scott the Writer/Manager" in Women and Playwriting in Nineteenth- Century Britain, ed. Tracy C. Davis and Ellen Donkin (Cambridge University Press, 1999), pp. 77-98; Bratton's introduction to, and transcription of, Jane Scott's ...
Women's Theatre Writing in Victorian Britain

Women's Theatre Writing in Victorian Britain

K. Newey

Tracy C. Davis, 'The Sociable Playwright and Representative Citizen,' in Tracy C. Davis and Ellen Donkin (eds), Women and Playwriting in NineteenthCentury Britain (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), 30. 8. Times, 27 April 1914 ...
Dear Ellen: two Mormon women and their letters

Dear Ellen: two Mormon women and their letters

Samuel George Ellsworth

But there is also much to learn about hardship in their candid exchanges. Ellen Spencer Clawson and Ellen Pratt McGary were childhood friends in Illinois.
Globetrotter

Globetrotter

David Albahari

Bait, translated by Peter Agnone Snow Man, translated by Ellen Elias-Bursać Götz and Meyer, translated by Ellen Elias-Bursać Leeches, translated by Ellen Elias-Bursać Learning Cyrillic, translated by Ellen Elias-Bursać ELLEN ...
Ellen Terry, Spheres of Influence

Ellen Terry, Spheres of Influence

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List of Contributors List of Figures and Tables Introduction: Ellen Terry and Her Circle – Formal Introductions and Informal Encounters – Katharine Cockin 1 Part I : Ellen Terry's Influences on Others 1 Introduction: Ellen Terry's Lost Lives – Nina  ...
Ellen Gallagher: AxME

Ellen Gallagher: AxME

Ellen Gallagher

Born in 1965 in Providence, Rhode Island, Ellen Gallagher is one of the most acclaimed contemporary painters to have emerged from North America.
The Ellen G. White Encyclopedia:

The Ellen G. White Encyclopedia:

Denis Fortin

Everything About Ellen G. White in One Resource This masterwork brings together hundreds of articles that describe the people and events in the life of Ellen White, as well as her stand on numerous topics.
God's Nutritionist: Pearls of Wisdom from Ellen G. White

God's Nutritionist: Pearls of Wisdom from Ellen G. White

Ellen Gould Harmon White

In this unique book, Robert Cohen presents Ellen White's most insightful quotations on health and nutrition, and supports them with current scientific facts that confirm her views.
The wide, wide world

The wide, wide world

Susan Warner

As her eye met Ellen's however she came to a sudden pause. It was Margaret Duns- combe. Ellen's face certainly showed no pleasure ; Margaret's darkened with a very disagreeable surprise. " My goodness ! — Ellen Montgomery ! — how on ...
Ellen G. White: Prophet of Destiny

Ellen G. White: Prophet of Destiny

Rene Noorbergen

In April, 1906 Ellen G. White was granted a vision foreseeing the destruction of the city of San Francisco. Two days later, an earthquake struck, leveling the city. Once again, Ellen G. White had somehow seen into the future.
Ellen Tebbits

Ellen Tebbits

Beverly Cleary

The best friend was Austine, and the secret was that Ellen was wearing woolen underwear. So was Austine! This whole book is a cause for rejoicing, for Mrs. Cleary has done it again. Ellen Tebbits is as funny as Henry Huggins.
The Collected Letters of Ellen Terry

The Collected Letters of Ellen Terry

Ellen Terry

Ellen Terry's correspondence was both exuberant and extensive.
Ellen Ross, private detective

Ellen Ross, private detective

Adrian Robert

When Terry doesn't allow Ellen to play police detective with him, Ellen becomes a private detective on her own. Then Terry finds he really does need her help on an important case.
Ellen Glasgow: New Perspectives

Ellen Glasgow: New Perspectives

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New Perspectives Dorothy McInnis Scura. Am Between Ellen and Louise Female Friendship, Glasgow's Letters to Louise Chandler Moulton, and The Wheel ofj^ife Tamela cBKjJVlatthews By the time Ellen Glasgow met the older writer Louise ...
Skin: Surface, Substance, and Design

Skin: Surface, Substance, and Design

Ellen Lupton

Ellen Lupton, with essays by Jennifer Tobias, Alicia Imperiale, Grace Jeffers, Available now in a paperback edition, Skin: Surface, Substance, and Design contains a new preface by Ellen Lupton, describing products and projects that have ...
Family Puzzlers

Family Puzzlers

Mary Bondurant Warren

29, 1927 Roy Orr son of Ivan and Ellen Garrison was born November 11, 1900 Emely Mae daughter of Ivan L. and Ellen Garrison was born Dec. 3, 19O1 Charles Herbert second son of Ivan L. and Ellen Garrison was born Mar. 14, 19O4 ...
Crocker-Langley San Francisco Business Directory ...

Crocker-Langley San Francisco Business Directory ...

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Alameda Foley Edwin J., machinist, r. 176 Perry Foley Elizabeth Mrs., r. 1330 Mission Foley Elizabeth M. Miss, teacher Fremont Primary School, r. 1245 Hayes Foley Ellen, widow, r. 270 Ciara Foley Ellen, widow, r. 654 Jessie rear Foley Ellen, ...
Effective Philanthropy: Organizational Success Through Deep ...

Effective Philanthropy: Organizational Success Through Deep ...

Mary Ellen S. Capek

Organizational Success Through Deep Diversity And Gender Equality Mary Ellen S. Capek, Molly Mead Women & ... the late Althea D. and John B. Stagg, whose fairness and strong sense of social justice inform Mary Ellen's earliest memories,  ...
Biennial Report of the Board of State Commissioners of ...

Biennial Report of the Board of State Commissioners of ...

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George Brown Eliza Haines Ellen Dun worth Ellen Madigau Kate Conuell August Stride William Barton Henry ... Maria S. Sawyer Kate Bull Letitia Westgate Ellen Berry Mary Hillings Frank Hiue Hank- Gillett Tefl.t Walker Frank Taylor a James ... Hicks Nancy Rutherford Mary' Rutherford Jane Earley Kate McCarty a Emma Iiortter Mary Vanorman Harriet Parker Ellen Wilson Margaret Palmer a Louisa Jones, ...
Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy

Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy

William Wade Hinshaw

Parvln prcf Short Creek MM, dtd 1839,10,22, to m Ellen Stroud 1839, 11, 13. Parvin rmt Ellen Stroud 1840, 1, 15. Ellen S. get Short Creek MM 1841, 9, 15. Joab & w, Ruth, & ch, Amy, Hannah, Julian, Catharine, Griffith, Joel & Phebe, get White ...
Herbs for Health

Herbs for Health

Ellen Gould Harmon White

Compiled by Elder Dores Eugene Robinson, secretary to Mrs. Ellen G. White.
The Collected Letters of Ellen Terry

The Collected Letters of Ellen Terry

Katharine Cockin

Ellen Terry's correspondence was both exuberant and extensive.

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