Sweet Canadian Girls Abroad: A Transnational History of Stage and Screen Actresses 9780228013273

The forgotten lives of Canadian actresses who graced stages around the world at the turn of the twentieth century. Tak

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Sweet Canadian Girls Abroad: A Transnational History of Stage and Screen Actresses
9780228013273

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Cecilia Morgan

Table of contents :
Cover
SWEET CANADIAN GIRLS ABROAD
Title
Copyright
Dedication
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Why Actresses? The Personal and the Professional
CHAPTER One Becoming an Actress: Childhood, Family, and the Stage
CHAPTER TWO Working Lives
CHAPTER THREE The Plays
CHAPTER FOUR Celebrity
CHAPTER FIVE Citizenship
CHAPTER SIX The Interwar Decades: Retaining Old Patterns, Facing New Challenges
CHAPTER SEVEN The Modern – and Transnational – Sweet Canadian Girl Onstage in London ...and New York ... and Sydney ... and Auckland
Epilogue
Dramatis Personae
Figures
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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