This book offers an intriguing and fun tour of common language and is ideal for armchair linguists as well as all film, television, and popular culture junkies.
Presents a wide range of familiar catchphrases, with entries drawn from television, radio, books, films, songs, and music providing full details of who coined or employed each phrase, when, and in what context.
The influence of the women's movement has long been a scholarly priority in the study of British women's drama of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, but previous scholarship has largely clustered around two events: the New Woman in the 1890s and the suffrage camp…
The female playwright in the 1890s -- The new woman on the stage -- Ingénues, wives, and mothers : women's drama in the West End -- The orthodox roots of suffrage theatre -- A new heroine for a new century : women's drama and the modernist theatre. "The influence of the women's…
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The nineteenth-century women's movement -- Twentieth- and twenty-first century feminism and nineteenth-century women's writing -- Notes -- …
"The influence of the women's movement has long been a scholarly priority in the study of British women's drama of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, but previous scholarship has largely clustered around two events: the New Woman in the 1890s and the suffrage cam…