The Girl from God's Country

Armatage reintroduces film studies scholars to Nell Shipman, a pioneer in both Canadian and American film, and one of proportionately numerous women from Hollywood’s silent era who wrote, directed, produced, and acted in motion pictures.

Kay Armatage is Chair, Graduate Programme in Women's Studies, University of Toronto.

'[Armatage] captures the engaging subject of actor, writer, animal lover, and eternal optimist Nell Shipman, with scholarly excursions that reveal Shipman as a node in a tangle of fascinating theoretical and historiographical issues … The wealth of original research on Shipman and her context, drawing upon contemporary documents and analyzing rarely seen films, together with the lively presence of Shipman herself through her memoir, makes the book valuable as a resource on women in the silent era, a thoughtful reflection on historiographical method, and an exemplar of feminist scholarship.'