Marlis Schweitzer. Bloody Tyrants and Little Pickles: Stage Roles of Anglo-American Girls in the Nineteenth Century

Abstract

Scholarly and accessible, Bloody Tyrants and Little Pickles, an investigation of the nineteenth-century child actresses Clara Fisher and Jean Margaret Davenport in Britain and North America, will be of interest to researchers and students of nineteenth-century theatre, transatlantic theatre, theories of girlhood, cultural expressions of racial hierarchy, and theatre and empire.