Lena Ashwell

Lena Ashwell
Author: Margaret Leask
Publisher: Univ of Hertfordshire Press
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2012
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1907396756

Skillfully written and complemented with photos, this biography is the first to honor British actress-manager Lena Ashwell. In a rapidly changing world, Ashwell was crucial to the advancement of women in English theater and in the formation of the National Theater.The bookhighlights the inspiring woman s other valuable accomplishments as well, including her efforts to raise money during World War I for thousands of concert-party troop entertainments and regular theater performances she established throughout local London communities. From her first appearance on stage in 1891 to the end of her life, this is Lena Ashwell s story."

Lena Ashwell

Lena Ashwell
Author: Margaret Leask
Publisher: Univ of Hertfordshire Press
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2012
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1907396640

Biography of Ashwell with material on her company, the Lena Ashwell Players.

Creative Women of the “Lost Generation”

Creative Women of the “Lost Generation”
Author: Kimberly Francis
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2023-08-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 1000924645

This book explores the creative women of the "Lost Generation" including painters, sculptors, film makers, writers, singers, composers, dancers, and impresarios who all pursued artistic careers in the years leading up to, during, and following World War I. These women’s stories, and the art they created, commissioned, mobilized as propaganda, and performed shed light on the shifting nature of gender norms during this period. With the combined knowledge and expertise from different contributors, chapters in this book consider how modernist practices continued their development in women’s hands during the war through networks forged by and for women artists in the absence of their male colleagues. These chapters also reflect on how, in many cases, the dissolution of these structures after the November 1918 armistice had detrimental consequences for their professional trajectories. This book challenges the place creative women currently hold in the historical record while also clarifying how these artists and impresarios contributed to wartime and post-war culture. This collection of essays will be of great value to scholars interested in social and gender history of the twentieth century, as well as historians of the arts through offering nuanced understanding of the essential work of female creative professionals, highlighting artistic women’s experiences of resistance, mourning, and reinvention in the shadow of the Great War.

Sounds of War

Sounds of War
Author: Emma Hanna
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2020-03-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 110848008X

Music in all its forms was an indispensable part of everyday life in Britain's armed forces during the Great War.

Ms-Directing Shakespeare

Ms-Directing Shakespeare
Author: Elizabeth Schafer
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2000-05-19
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780312227463

"First published in Great Britain by the Women's Press Ltd., 1998"--Title page verso.

Auto/Biography and Identity

Auto/Biography and Identity
Author: Maggie B B. Gale
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2004
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780719063329

Arguing that women use autobiography and performance for expression and as a means of controlling their public and private selves, the contributors of these 11 essays examine the lives and work of a variety of artists ranging from actors as working women in the eighteenth century to monologists and performance artists today. Subjects include several performers, including Alma Ellerslie, Kitty Marion, Ina Rozant, Susan Glaspell, Adrienne Kennedy, Emma Robinson, Lena Ashwell, Tilly Wedekind, Clare Dowie, Janet Cardiff, Tracey Emin, and, in an interview, Bobby Baker, as well as essays on Latina theater and lesbians as performers constructing themselves and their community. Annotation : 2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

The Show Must Go On! Popular Song in Britain During the First World War

The Show Must Go On! Popular Song in Britain During the First World War
Author: John Mullen
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2016-03-03
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1317016122

Using a collection of over one thousand popular songs from the war years, as well as around 150 soldiers’ songs, John Mullen provides a fascinating insight into the world of popular entertainment during the First World War. Mullen considers the position of songs of this time within the history of popular music, and the needs, tastes and experiences of working-class audiences who loved this music. To do this, he dispels some of the nostalgic, rose-tinted myths about music hall. At a time when recording companies and record sales were marginal, the book shows the centrality of the live show and of the sale of sheet music to the economy of the entertainment industry. Mullen assesses the popularity and significance of the different genres of musical entertainment which were common in the war years and the previous decades, including music hall, revue, pantomime, musical comedy, blackface minstrelsy, army entertainment and amateur entertainment in prisoner of war camps. He also considers non-commercial songs, such as hymns, folk songs and soldiers’ songs and weaves them into a subtle and nuanced approach to the nature of popular song, the ways in which audiences related to the music and the effects of the competing pressures of commerce, propaganda, patriotism, social attitudes and the progress of the war.

Women of the War

Women of the War
Author: Barbara McLaren
Publisher: New York : G.H. Doran
Total Pages: 234
Release: 1918
Genre: Women
ISBN: