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Introduction Why Actresses? the Personal and the Professional

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Chapters in this book

  1. Front Matter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Acknowledgments ix
  4. Why Actresses? the Personal and the Professional 3
  5. Becoming an Actress: Childhood, Family, and the Stage 23
  6. working lives 50
  7. The Plays 83
  8. Celebrity 129
  9. Citizenship 174
  10. The Interwar Decades: Retaining Old Patterns, Facing New Challenges 215
  11. The Modern – and Transnational – Sweet Canadian Girl onstage in London … and new York … and Sydney … and auckland 249
  12. Epilogue 303
  13. Dramatis Personae 307
  14. Figures 309
  15. Notes 315
  16. Bibliography 379
  17. Index 419
Sweet Canadian Girls Abroad
This chapter is in the book Sweet Canadian Girls Abroad
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780228013273-002

Chapters in this book

  1. Front Matter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Acknowledgments ix
  4. Why Actresses? the Personal and the Professional 3
  5. Becoming an Actress: Childhood, Family, and the Stage 23
  6. working lives 50
  7. The Plays 83
  8. Celebrity 129
  9. Citizenship 174
  10. The Interwar Decades: Retaining Old Patterns, Facing New Challenges 215
  11. The Modern – and Transnational – Sweet Canadian Girl onstage in London … and new York … and Sydney … and auckland 249
  12. Epilogue 303
  13. Dramatis Personae 307
  14. Figures 309
  15. Notes 315
  16. Bibliography 379
  17. Index 419
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