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Morgan, Cecilia, 1958-
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Actors and actresses -- Canada -- Biography.
Actors and actresses -- Canada -- History -- 19th century.
Actors and actresses -- Canada -- History -- 20th century.
Actors and actresses -- Canada -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Actors and actresses -- Canada -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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Morgan, Cecilia, 1958-
Actors and actresses -- Canada -- Biography.
Actors and actresses -- Canada -- History -- 19th century.
Actors and actresses -- Canada -- History -- 20th century.
Actors and actresses -- Canada -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Actors and actresses -- Canada -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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Sweet Canadian girls abroad : a transnational history of stage and screen
actresses
/ Cecilia Morgan.
by
Morgan, Cecilia, 1958-
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022.
Call #:
792.0280922 M847s
Subjects
Actors
and
actresses
--
Canada
--
Biography.
Actors
and
actresses
--
Canada
--
History
--
19th
century
.
Actors
and
actresses
--
Canada
--
History
--
20th
century
.
Actors
and
actresses
--
Canada
--
Social
conditions
--
19th
century
.
Actors
and
actresses
--
Canada
--
Social
conditions
--
20th
century
.
ISBN:
9780228011385 (pbk.)
Description:
xi, 424 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 316-417) and index (pages 419-424).
Summary:
"By the late nineteenth
century
, Canadian women had begun forging careers as professional
actresses
, appearing not just in
Canada
, but in the United States, Britain, Australia, and New Zealand. They played an integral role in theatrical networks and helped shape transnational middle-class culture. Taking the approach of feminist collective biography, 'Sweet Canadian Girls Abroad' writes the lives of women who, despite their renown during their lifetimes, have been all too easily forgotten. Cecilia Morgan examines these "sweet girls'" childhoods, their experiences of work, touring, and company management, the plays in which they appeared, and the celebrity they enjoyed. In so doing, she shows how women helped convey messages about race, empire, and white identity in popular culture. Spanning a period from the 1870s to the 1940s, Morgan demonstrates how
actresses
evolved within a period of change in theatre, how they coped with new challenges, and brought their craft to new media. Paying particular attention to the careers of Margaret Bannerman, Tony-Award winner Beatrice Lillie, Margaret Anglin, Julia Arthur, and Frances Doble, among many others, this book explores how being an actress abroad became work as well as profession for Canadian women. Extensively researched and generously illustrated, 'Sweet Canadian Girls Abroad' argues for the importance of theatre, both to Canadian women's history and to our understanding of
Canada
in a transnational world."--From publisher.
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