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Kitty Marion

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This is the unpublished autobiography of Kitty Marion, an actress, music hall performer, suffragette arsonist and campaigner in the American birth control movement. Written in the 1930s, Marion’s s...
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  • 28 February 2019
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With the outbreak of World War I, German-born Kitty Marion, suspected of being a German spy and placed under surveillance, sailed from Liverpool for New York. She left a dramatic and colourful life behind: a hectic and fascinating 20-year career as a performer crisscrossing Britain first as a singer, dancer and actress on the musical comedy and pantomime stage, and then in music hall as a ‘refined comedienne’. She campaigned against the sexual abuses rife in the theatre of the day which led her eventually into the suffragette movement where she became a ‘notorious’ militant, responsible for numerous acts of arson. She was imprisoned, went on hunger-strike, and was force-fed more than 300-times. In America, she became a celebrated ‘foot-soldier’ in Margaret Sanger’s birth control movement. Her autobiography, written in the 1930s is published here for the first time.
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Price: $140.00
Pages: 296
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Series: Women, Theatre and Performance
Publication Date: 28 February 2019
ISBN: 9781526138040
Format: Hardcover
BISACs: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, Autobiography: arts and entertainment, HISTORY / Women, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism, Political activism / Political engagement, Theatre studies, Social and cultural history
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Viv Gardner is Professor Emerita at the University of Manchester, and is a theatre and performance historian, focusing on gender and sexuality at the fin de siècle

Diane Atkinson is an independent scholar and author of three biographies and two illustrated two books on the suffragettes

List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
The Editors
List of abbreviations
Introduction
The Autobiography
1. Germany
2. England
3. Militant Suffrage
4. War
5. ‘Hail Columbia’
6. Birth Control
7. Peace
Epilogue
Appendix I: Home Office Papers: Prison Reports
Appendix II: Prison Letters
Appendix III: Home Office: Citizenship Reports
Select Bibliography
Index