Alice Chapin Libros

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 time challenging the staid conventions of the Edwardian Theatre of the day. The legacy of their inspiring work to change both theatre and society has survived in the political theatre, agit-prop and verbatim theatre we know today. Introduced and set in an historical context by Dr Susan Croft together with an extensive Chronology of suffrage drama 1907-1914.Full playtexts from the following:’How the Vote was Won’ by Cicely Hamilton and Chris St. John’The Apple’ by Inez Bensusan’Jim s Leg’ by L.S. Phibbs’Votes for Women’ by Elizabeth Robins’At the Gates’ by Alice Chapin’In the Workhouse’ by Margaret Wynne Nevinson’A Change of Tenant’ by Helen Margaret Nightingale.

This novel, first published in 1907, brings to life Robin's experience and that of her colleagues, Christabel and Emmeline Pankhurst, in the story of Vida Levering, an upper-class British woman "converted" to the working-class suffrage movement. In a suspenseful plot, Robins contrasts the witty dialogue of elegant drawing rooms with the rough-and-tumble outdoor meetings of Trafalgar Square, recreating them almost word for word from actual accounts. Ultimately, Vida begins to make her own first speeches and out of the tragic events of her past devises a means of effecting women's political freedom. Jane Marcus puts this "funny, moving, and beautifully structured novel" in a class with Virginia Woolf's Night and Day.

What is love and how do we love ourselves more? Why do we judge and blame ourselves and can we begin to move to a higher way? In this book Helen Hamilton takes us through the stages of love from conditional love, unconditional love and even love before duality and separateness. We will also explore how to love others and the world in general from a loving understanding. Isn?t it time for you to experience self-acceptance and love?