Sweet Canadian Girls Abroad: A Transnational History of Stage and Screen Actresses

by Cecilia Morgan

Book Overview

By the late nineteenth century, Canadian women had begun forging careers as professional actresses, appearing not just in Canada, but in the United States, Britain, Australia, and New Zealand. They played an integral role in theatrical networks and helped shape transnational middle-class culture.Taking the approach of feminist collective biography, Sweet Canadian Girls Abroad writes the lives of women who, despite their renown during their lifetimes,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0228011388
• ISBN13: 9780228011385
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 440 Pages