Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, twentieth-century actress
by Grime, Helen
Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, a famous actress whose career spanned most of the twentieth century, is now largely forgotten. Her personal story is a journey through a social and cultural landscape in which what it meant to be a woman, an actress and a lesbian shifted enormously. This book reveals a skilled navigator of social and professional networks who excelled in playing with notions of identity and confounded society's expectations, finally defying all attempts at reductive categorization.--From …
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- Full title :Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, twentieth-century actress / by Helen Grime.
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Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, a famous actress whose career spanned most of the twentieth century, is now largely forgotten. Her personal story is a journey through a social and cultural landscape in which what it meant to be a woman, an actress and a lesbian shifted enormously. This book reveals a skilled navigator of social and professional networks who excelled in playing with notions of identity and confounded society's expectations, finally defying all attempts at reductive categorization.--From back cover.
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- Publication Date:2013.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Pickering & Chatto
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2013.
The Physical Object
- Description:ix, 255 pages : : illustrations ; : 25 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781848933194, 1848933193
- oclc:ocn827268433
- LC Classification:PN2598.F42
- Dewey Decimal:792.028092
Table of Contents
Stories and myths -- Actresses and femininity -- Sexuality and discretion -- Archetypes and epithets -- Industry and diversity -- Pioneer and purpose -- Associations and ambition -- Resurrection and legacy.
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