Since 1660 when actresses first began performing on the English stage, women have forged bright careers in theatre, while men called the shots. Four hundred years of women playwrights, from Aphra Behn to Caryl Churchill, yet plays by women make up less than a quarter of staged productions in the UK, leading to a scarcity of roles for women. With women buying most of the tickets, theatre productions risk losing their relevance to modern culture if they fail to represent the many and varied ...

Thousands of Noras: Short Plays by Women, 1875-1920 provides an international collection of dramatic works written by women that draw attention to the power and range of voices of several generations of women writers. Sketches, monologues, duologues and plays from the United States, England, Ireland, Scotland, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada are represented. It includes works by playwrights considered marginal, as well as lesser-known works by established writers such as Elizab...

Everything you need to know for career and personal success which is not covered in your school text books!In today’s employment market there is little doubt that you are entering a world of strong competition, constant change and a high noise level in terms of the messages and signals you will be bombarded with. The Sixth Form MBA will help you navigate this world in terms of giving you advice on all the skills you will need to develop in order to succeed.The first edition...

A collection of the best suffrage plays, introduced and set in an historical context by Dr Susan Croft together with an expert chronology of suffrage drama.The astonishing women involved in the Actresses Franchise League set up their own theatre companies and engaged with the battle for the vote by writing and performing campaigning plays all over the country. They launched themselves onto the political stage with their satirical plays, sketches and monologues whilst at the same ti...

Staged in theatres by successive generations and proving relevant to contemporary audiences, the plays demonstrate the wit, theatrical skill and innovation of their creators in exploring timeless topics from marriage, morality and money to class conflict, rage and sexual desire. An essential resource for students, playwrights, colleges, universities and libraries, this collection also provides theatres with the opportunity to programme a range of theatrical classics by women. Plays from: '...

"A House to Let" is a short story by Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell and Adelaide Anne Procter. It was originally published in 1858 in the Christmas edition of Dickens Household Words magazine. Wilkie wrote the introduction and collaborated with Dickens on the second story and ending, while Gaskell and Proctor wrote the remainder.

This volume collects 21 long-lost stories by the author of Anne of Green Gables written across 40 years—with a forward by the author's granddaughter.Although best known for creating the spirited Anne Shirley, L. M. Montgomery had a thriving writing career that included several novels and more than five hundred poems and short stories. After Many Years brings together rare pieces originally published between 1900 and 1939 that haven't been in print...

The Tales of Avonlea - Complete Collection gathers Montgomery's beloved Prince Edward Island fiction into a richly textured panorama of village life, childhood imagination, courtship, moral testing, and quiet emotional revelation. Across the novels and short stories, her prose combines pastoral lyricism, sharp social observation, and a gift for comic dialogue, placing Avonlea within the tradition of regional realism while preserving the romance and wonder that made Anne Shirley iconic. Luc...

Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman was born on October 31, 1852. She began to write whilst still a teenager, primarily children’s stories and verse and quickly became successful. Whilst working as a secretary to the noted author and physician, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr, her style of poetry and novels began to take on the characteristics of the local New England region. When her interest turned to the supernatural the result was a group of short stories which combined domestic realism with supern...

Mary Robson is a young Yorkshire woman, married to her solid, unromantic cousin, John. Together they battle to preserve Mary's neglected inheritance: their beloved farm, Anderby Wold. This labour of love - and the benevolent tyranny of traditional Yorkshire ways - has made Mary old before her time.Then into her purposeful life comes David Rossitur. Young, red-haired, charming, eloquent: how can she help but love him? But David is from a different England - radical and committed to ...

In Melchester, Thomas Littlejohn hunts the killer of a strangled poetThe war is over and blackouts are a thing of the past, except in the village of Melchester, where the local council has refused to sully its streets with unsightly lamps. The night is pitch black, but hardly quiet. Young lovers are rendezvousing, a police constable is helping himself to a few of his neighbor's partridges, and a poet is going to visit his beloved, a new verse on his lips. She will n...