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the wealth of previously unknown and scattered factual information makes the book very useful to readers interested in theatre history, the construction of gender, and nineteenth-century culture. <br>- Victorian Review <br> This important study, grounded in Marxist and feminist theory and the New History' methodology of Lawrence Stone, discounts many of the findings of the only other recent books on the subject . . . for being too narrowly limited to successful West End performers and casually assembled data. Davis (Harvard) includes suburban and provincial theater and music hall performers, and explodes many a myth about actresses with substantial evidence ranging from census reports to court records . . . . Crucial reading for the serious theater historian, this book will also interest those concerned more generally with feminist and Victoriam subjects.-- Choice. <br>

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Tracy C. Davis is Assistant Professor in Theatre and English at Northwestern University. She has written numerous articles on Victorian theatre and is co-editor of Routledge’s Gender and Performance Series.

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