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<p>During the late Victorian and Edwardian periods, American women expatriates helped populate Britain’s literary, theatrical, and arts scenes.&nbsp;Varied in their motivation and talents, they were educated, nearly all moneyed, and distinctive for being American, which made them outsiders free from many of the social constraints that checked English women.&nbsp;Drawing on correspondence, reviews, and articles of the day, records from women’s clubs, and other documentary sources, Gabin pieces together the lives and careers of one such group of American women, living in London between 1870 and the end of WWI.&nbsp;It is a colony of fascinating characters well known in their day but more recently obscured, whose individual efforts and achievements nevertheless created more opportunities for future, less-privileged women.&nbsp;</p> <p>The group ranges from socialite Jennie Jerome Churchill (mother of Winston), to novelists Pearl Craigie and Gertrude Atherton, actresses Mary Anderson, Genevieve Ward, and Elizabeth Robins, and journalists Elizabeth Banks and Elizabeth Robins Pennell.&nbsp;Supporting figures include Boston poet Louise Chandler Moulton—who hosted a literary salon in her L

Author

Gabin, Jane S., 1950-

Publisher

Gainesville: University Press of Florida

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780813029146

Subjects

Memoir, History, Sociology