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Author Archives: Kathleen Johnson

Fay Bainter’s Biography

December 7, 2014by Kathleen Johnson

This biography of Fay Bainter appeared in the fan magazine Hollywood in 1938 to promote Bainter’s Academy Award-winning performance in Jezebel (1938). The biography makes mention of her star-making role […]

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Fay Bainter

Tyler Groff

December 7, 2014by Kathleen Johnson

Tyler Groff is a second year doctoral student in English with a research focus situated in late-nineteenth-century and early-twentieth-century British literature and drama. He is currently exploring ways in which […]

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Tyler Groff

Katie N. Johnson

December 7, 2014by Kathleen Johnson

Katie N. Johnson is Associate Professor of English and an Affiliate of Film and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Miami University of Ohio. She is the author of Sisters […]

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Katie N. Johnson

Katie N. Johnson

December 7, 2014by Kathleen Johnson

Katie N. Johnson is Associate Professor of English and an Affiliate of Film and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Miami University of Ohio. She is the author of Sisters […]

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Tyler Groff

December 7, 2014by Kathleen Johnson

Tyler Groff is a second year doctoral student in English with a research focus situated in late-nineteenth-century and early-twentieth-century British literature and drama. He is currently exploring ways in which […]

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Katie N. Johnson

December 6, 2014by Kathleen Johnson

  Katie N. Johnson is Associate Professor of English and an Affiliate of Film and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Miami University of Ohio. She is the author of […]

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Cocaine by Pendleton King (1916)

December 6, 2014by Kathleen Johnson

This one-act play features drug abuse, urban poverty, and both men and women selling their bodies for sale.  This honest portrait of drug abuse features two down-on-their luck addicts living in […]

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Brothel Dramas, Cocaine (1916) by Pendleton King, Eugene Lincoln, Ida Rauh, Margaret Wycherly, Pendleton King

Is the Stage a Perilous Place for the Young Girl, Theatre, January 1915

December 2, 2014by Kathleen Johnson

Edith-Wynne-Matthison-and-Lillian-Russell-Is-the-Stage-a-Perilous-Place-for-the-Young-Girl-December-1914-and-January-1915

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Actresses & Actors, Gender, Obscenity & Censorship, Spectatorship

The Masses (January 1915-July 1915)

December 2, 2014by Kathleen Johnson

The Masses (A Socialist Magazine which was produced from 1911-1917. It describes itself as “a Magazine with a Sense of Humor and no Respect for the Respectable.”) James Hale–Nobody’s Sister–January 1915 […]

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SEX FOR SALE: SIX PROGRESSIVE-ERA BROTHEL DRAMAS

Sisters in Sin: Brothel Drama in America, 1900 – 1920

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