Two Friends and Other Nineteenth-century Lesbian Stories by American Women WritersSusan Koppelman In 1660, when theatres in England reopened after years of Puritan repression, women trod the boards as actors for the very first time. By the end of the century they had stormed and breached another bastion of the male domain and become dramatists as well. Most available collections of plays from the period exclude them; traditional criticism overlooks or diminishes them. But their works, as seen here, hold their own against the most popular productions for the theater from 1678 to 1787, and do it with a distinctively female spirit. |
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PREFACE | 1 |
My Visitation by Rose TERRY | 21 |
Died by ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS | 43 |
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Reclaiming Authorship: Literary Women in America, 1850-1900 Susan S. Williams No preview available - 2006 |