Table of Contents

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction

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2. The Female Playwright in the 1890s
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4. The New Woman on the Stage
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6. Ingenues, Wives, and Mothers: Women's Drama in the West End
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8. The Orthodox Roots of Suffrage Theatre
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10. A New Heroine for a New Century: Women's Drama and the Modernist Theatre

About the Author

Anna Farkas is Assistant Professor of English Literature at Regensburg University, Germany. She is co-editor of Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Aging in Nineteenth-Century Culture (2013). Her research interests are in British drama of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, women's writing, and law and literature.