Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- INTRODUCTION -- WHITHER HOW? -- THE OPEN QUESTION -- IBSEN THE ACTRESS -- THEATRE AND FRIENDSHIP -- COME AND FIND ME -- THE MAGNETIC NORTH -- THE CONVERT -- WHERE ARE YOU GOING TO? -- ANCILLA'S SHARE -- TIME IS WHISPERING -- Appendices -- Elizabeth Robins's major publications -- Elizabeth Robins's writings on women's suffrage -- Notes -- Index.

A woman of extraordinary energy, talent and versatility. Elizabeth Robins was an actress who popularised Ibsen on the British stage, a prolific and popular writer of novels and non-fiction, and an Edwardian suffragette. Her extensive circle of friends included Florence Bell, Henry James, John Masefield and William Archer. She worked with the Pankhursts and knew the Woolfs. Through examining the life and work of this vivid and transatlantic figure born during the American Civil War yet surviving into the England of the 1950s, Angela John raises questions about the shaping of historical identities. Situating Elizabeth Robins's achievement in the context of the British and American cultural history of the period, this is a book which will attract historians, teachers and students of theatre studies and all those fascinated by biography.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.