Chapter 3, Elizabeth Gaskell’s Cranford in Suffrage Times 🗳️♀️ 💪 💜
Link to the e-chapter: academic.oup.com/book/62303/c...
From*Theatrical Afterlives: Nineteenth-Century Women’s Novels on the Stage* (OUP 26) global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Helen Margaret Nightingale was a writer whose suffrage play A Change of Tenant was popular with suffrage societies and toured by the Actresses Franchise League. Read about her life and work
lucienneboyce.substack.com/p/helen-marg... #ActressesFranchiseLeague #suffragetheatre
Text that reads: Ten strategies of successful suffrage theatre makers 1. Create new work that is responsive and representative 2. Collaborate with other artists and practitioners 3. Accept and discuss differing views 4. Represent and be the change you want to see 5. Embrace versatility across styles, genres, venues, audiences 6. Network nationally and internationally 7. Dream and plan for future generations 8. Share your work in non-theatre spaces 9. Recognise and use the talent, power, and privilege you have 10. Have fun!
“Ten strategies of successful suffrage theatre makers” - put together for a workshop in 2024
Available in 2025 for talks, walks, readings, and workshops - for schools, universities, heritage organisations, and community groups. Get in touch!
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My new chapter is out! The first time I think anyone has written about 1913 play “The Bill” by Mrs George Cornwallis West (aka Winston Churchill’s mother), and the first time my research about experimental suffrage performance in 1915 New York has been published 😃
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