Joanne E. Gates is an associate professor of English at Jacksonville State University and is the coeditor of Alaska–Klondike Diary of Elizabeth Robins, 1900.

A model of good research and an excellent scholarly work."" - Jane Marcus, The University of Texas""An important scholarly achievement. A marvelous work of biographical scholarship, on an important and unjustly neglected figure."" - Kerry Powell, Miami University

• IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. “I Was Born in the Superlative”: Girlhood and American Stage Career, 1862–18882. The Coming Woman: Early Years in London, 1888–18923. The Power of Anonymity: Free Choices and a Dual Career, 1893–18964. Toward the New Century: Further Ambitions, Wider Horizons, 1896–19005. The Magnetic North: Raymond, Alaska, Chinsegut, and “My Own Life,” 1900–19066. Votes for Women: The Suffrage Campaign in England, 1906–19097. Political Crises and a Pilgrimage into the Past, 1909–19168. “My Share in Graver Business”: Fiction and Feminism, 1915–1924EpilogueAbbreviationsNotesBibliographyIndex

Joanne E. Gates is an associate professor of English at Jacksonville State University and is the coeditor of Alaska–Klondike Diary of Elizabeth Robins, 1900.

A model of good research and an excellent scholarly work."" - Jane Marcus, The University of Texas""An important scholarly achievement. A marvelous work of biographical scholarship, on an important and unjustly neglected figure."" - Kerry Powell, Miami University

• IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. “I Was Born in the Superlative”: Girlhood and American Stage Career, 1862–18882. The Coming Woman: Early Years in London, 1888–18923. The Power of Anonymity: Free Choices and a Dual Career, 1893–18964. Toward the New Century: Further Ambitions, Wider Horizons, 1896–19005. The Magnetic North: Raymond, Alaska, Chinsegut, and “My Own Life,” 1900–19066. Votes for Women: The Suffrage Campaign in England, 1906–19097. Political Crises and a Pilgrimage into the Past, 1909–19168. “My Share in Graver Business”: Fiction and Feminism, 1915–1924EpilogueAbbreviationsNotesBibliographyIndex

Joanne E. Gates is an associate professor of English at Jacksonville State University and is the coeditor of Alaska–Klondike Diary of Elizabeth Robins, 1900.

A model of good research and an excellent scholarly work."" - Jane Marcus, The University of Texas""An important scholarly achievement. A marvelous work of biographical scholarship, on an important and unjustly neglected figure."" - Kerry Powell, Miami University

• IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. “I Was Born in the Superlative”: Girlhood and American Stage Career, 1862–18882. The Coming Woman: Early Years in London, 1888–18923. The Power of Anonymity: Free Choices and a Dual Career, 1893–18964. Toward the New Century: Further Ambitions, Wider Horizons, 1896–19005. The Magnetic North: Raymond, Alaska, Chinsegut, and “My Own Life,” 1900–19066. Votes for Women: The Suffrage Campaign in England, 1906–19097. Political Crises and a Pilgrimage into the Past, 1909–19168. “My Share in Graver Business”: Fiction and Feminism, 1915–1924EpilogueAbbreviationsNotesBibliographyIndex