Kitty Marion

Actor and activist

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The autobiography of Kitty Marion was written in the early 1930s but never published. It records Marion’s childhood in Germany, her life in British provincial theatre and music hall and her campaigns against the ‘casting couch’, a career as a militant suffragist or suffragette during which she committed numerous acts of arson, was imprisoned and suffered force feeding, and finally her move to America and involvement in the American birth control movement. The Epilogue details her life in New York after the end of the autobiography, including her work in the Federal Theatre Project, while the three appendices reproduce extracts from key archive documents which throw additional light on the autobiography. An Introduction outlines the problems Marion incurred trying to publish her story, its subsequent history and addresses some of the issues that her story raises about women’s history of activism.
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9781526138057
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526138057
Online Publication Date:
01 Mar 2019
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Subjects:
Film, Media and Music
Keywords:
Kitty Marion; theatre; music hall; WSPU; Actresses Franchise League; suffragette; force feeding; birth control movement
Page Count:
295
Publisher:
Manchester University Press

Series: Women, Theatre and Performance

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