American women in Gilded Age London : expatriates rediscovered /

American women in Gilded Age London : expatriates rediscovered /

An illuminating study of American women--active in politics and the arts--who lived and worked in England in times of adventure and trauma.

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access:	Electronic book from EBSCO
Main Author:	Gabin, Jane S., 1950-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2006.
Subjects:	Americans > England > London > History > 19th century. Women > England > London > History > 19th century. London (England) > Social life and customs > 19th century. London (England) > Intellectual life > 19th century.

Table of Contents:

The American woman arrives
Jennie Jerome Churchill, extraordinary expatriate
The "uncrowned queen of Americans in London"
The socialite-authors
American women on the British stage
Mary Anderson and the Americans of Broadway
Sketches of studio life: Elizabeth Robins Pennell and Julie Helen Heyneman
Elizabeth Banks, crusading journalist / Suffrage andn suffering: the American woman responds.