Stage Women, 1900–50

Maggie B. Gale is Professor and Chair of Drama at the University of ManchesterKate Dorney is Senior Lecturer in Theatre and Performance at the University of Manchester

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• Introduction - Maggie B. Gale and Kate Dorney Part I: Female theatre workers in the social and theatrical realm1 ‘Believe me or not’: actresses, female performers, autobiography and the scripting of professional practice - Maggie B. Gale2 Female networks: collecting contacts with Gabrielle Enthoven - Kate Dorney3 Past the memoir: Winifred Dolan beyond the West End - Lucie Sutherland4 Off-stage labour: actresses, charity work and the early twentieth-century theatre profession - Catherine Hindson5 ‘Very much alive and kicking’: the Actresses’ Franchise League from 1914–28 - Naomi Paxton6 Defending the body, defending the self: women performers and the law in the ‘long’ Edwardian period - Viv GardnerPart II: Women and popular performance7 Emotional and natural: the Australian and New Zealand repertoires and fortunes of north American performers Margaret Anglin, Katherine Grey and Muriel Starr - Veronica Kelly8 Lily Brayton: a theatre maker in every sense - Brian Singleton 9 Aerial star: Lillian Leitzel’s celebrity, agency and her performed femininity - Kate Holmes10 Ellen Terry: the art of performance and her work in film - Katharine Cockin11 Mabel Constanduros: different voices, voicing difference - Gilli Bush-Bailey 12 The odd woman: Margaret Rutherford - John StokesIndex