Women in the Arts in the Belle Epoque

Paul Fryer is an academic, author, editor and researcher, based in Kent (UK). He has lectured and presented film screenings internationally and is a visiting professor at the Universities of Leeds, London South Bank and East London.

• Table of ContentsIntroduction: But Where Were the Women?      PAUL FRYERSarah Bernhardt: Artist and Mythologist      DEBRA CHARLTONPauline Sherwood Townsend: American Proponent of Expression and Pageantry      NENA COUCHLillie Langtry: From “Professional Beauty” to International Icon      REBECCA A. UMLANDFashioning Herself a Lady: Anna Cora Mowatt’s “Bold Experiment”      ADRIENNE MACKI BRACONIIda Rubinstein, Fixer Fatale      EDWARD FORMANLoïe Fuller’s “Orgy of Color”: Modernity, Eternity and the Folies-Bergère      SEBASTIAN TRAINORSculpture in Motion: Nina Simonovich-Efimova and the Petrushka Theatre      DASSIA N. POSNERKeeping the House: Augusta Gregory and the National Theatre of Ireland      BERNADETTE SWEENEYCaldwell, Donnelly and Young: Women Writing in the American Musical Theatre      ELLEN MARIE PECKArmande de Polignac: An Aristocratic Compositrice in Fin-de-siècle Paris      LAURA HAMERThe Most Artistic Lady Artist on Earth: Vesta Victoria      CAROL A. MORLEYThe Graphic Power of Käthe Kollwitz      RINA ARYAAbout the Contributors      Index

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