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Kitty Marion

Actor and activist

Edited by Viv Gardner and Diane Atkinson

Kitty Marion
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  • ISBN: 9781526138040
  • Publish Date: Feb 2019
  • Publisher: Manchester University Press
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  • ISBN: 9781526138064
  • Publish Date: Mar 2019
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    With the outbreak of World War I, German-born Kitty Marion, suspected of being a German spy and placed under surveillance, sailed from Liverpool for New York. She left a dramatic and colourful life behind: a hectic and fascinating 20-year career as a performer crisscrossing Britain first as a singer, dancer and actress on the musical comedy and pantomime stage, and then in music hall as a 'refined comedienne'. She campaigned against the sexual abuses rife in the theatre of the day which led her eventually into the suffragette movement where she became a 'notorious' militant, responsible for numerous acts of arson. She was imprisoned, went on hunger-strike, and was force-fed more than 300-times. In America, she became a celebrated 'foot-soldier' in Margaret Sanger's birth control movement. Her autobiography, written in the 1930s is published here for the first time.

    Contents

    List of illustrations
    Acknowledgements
    The Editors
    List of abbreviations

    Introduction
    The Autobiography
    1. Germany
    2. England
    3. Militant Suffrage
    4. War
    5. 'Hail Columbia'
    6. Birth Control
    7. Peace
    Epilogue
    Appendix I: Home Office Papers: Prison Reports
    Appendix II: Prison Letters
    Appendix III: Home Office: Citizenship Reports

    Select Bibliography
    Index

    Editors

    Viv Gardner is Professor Emerita at the University of Manchester, and is a theatre and performance historian, focusing on gender and sexuality at the fin de siècle

    Diane Atkinson is an independent scholar and author of three biographies and two illustrated two books on the suffragettes

    Kitty Marion

    Edited by Viv Gardner, Diane Atkinson

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