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Author Engle, Sherry Darlene, 1945- author.

Title New women dramatists in America, 1890-1920 / Sherry D. Engle
Edition 1st edition
Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
©2007

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Description 1 online resource (x, 276 pages) : illustrations
Contents The proliferation of women dramatists during America?s Progressive Era * Dean of women dramatists, Martha Morton, 1865-1925 : Plays of Martha Morton * English-American Success, Madeleine Lucette Ryley, 1858-1934 * Plays of Madeleine Lucette Ryley * Collaborators extraordinaire, Evelyn Greenleaf Sutherland, 1855-1908, and Beulah Marie Dix, 1875-1970: Plays of Evelyn Greenleaf Sutherland and Beulah Marie Dix 1875-1970: Plays of Evelyn Greenleaf Sutherland and Beulah Marie Dix * Dramatist, songwriter, and lyricist, Rida Johnson Young, 1875-1926: Plays and musicals of Rida Johnson Young * Early feminists: setting examples for future generations
Summary This study reveals in depth the lives and work of five little-known women dramatists: Martha Morton, 1865-1925, Madeleine Lucette Ryley, 1858-1934, Evelyn Greenleaf Sutherland, 1855-1908, Beulah Marie Dix, 1876-1970, and Rida Johnson Young, 1875-1926. Entering playwriting at a time when very few women wrote for the stage, these pioneers achieved thriving careers and entertained theatergoers throughout the United States and Great Britain with their wholesome, light comedies, farces and musicals. Their collective experience as professional dramatists reveals trends of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century theatre practices and their accomplishments in a male-dominated profession serve to underscore hitherto unacknowledged contributions to America's Progressive Era theatre
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed June 28, 2024)
Subject Morton, Martha, 1865-1925.
Ryley, Madeleine Lucette, 1868-1934.
Sutherland, Evelyn Greenleaf, 1855-1908.
Dix, Beulah Marie, 1876-1970.
Young, Rida Johnson.
Women dramatists, American -- Biography
American drama -- Women authors -- History and criticism
Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Women dramatists, American -- 19th century
Women dramatists, American -- 20th century
Literary studies: general.
DRAMA -- American.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
Literature.
American drama -- Women authors
Women and literature
Women dramatists, American
United States
Genre/Form Biographies
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780230609365
0230609368
9781281915337
1281915335