Prostitution and Brothel Drama in the Progressive Era

Main Menu

Skip to content
  • Home
  • Digital Team
  • Brothel Dramas
    • The Web (1913) by Eugene O’Neill
    • Moondown by John Reed (1915)
    • Cocaine (1916) by Pendleton King
    • Ourselves (1913) by Rachel Crothers
    • My Little Sister (1913) by Elizabeth Robins
    • A Shanghai Cinderella (renamed East is West, 1918) by Samuel Shipman and John B. Hymer
    • More Brothel Plays
      • Dealers in White Women
      • The Fight by Bayard Veiller
  • Key Players
    • Playwrights
      • Rachel Crothers
      • Eugene O’Neill
      • Pendleton King
      • John Reed
      • Elizabeth Robins
      • Samuel Shipman and John B. Hymer
    • Actresses & Actors
      • Fay Bainter
      • Grace Elliston
      • Ethel Howard
      • Mattie Keene
      • Eugene Lincoln
      • Josephine Meyer
      • Evelyn Nesbit
      • Ida Rauh
      • Constance Talmadge
    • Directors
      • Rachel Crothers
      • Edward Goodman
      • Margaret Wycherly
    • Audiences
    • Costume Designers
  • Big Screen
    • Film Clips
    • Film Analyses
    • Promotional Materials
  • Historical Contexts
    • Articles of Interest By Opening Year
    • Prostitution
    • Birth Control
    • Immigration
    • Obscenity & Censorship
    • Race
    • Socialism
    • White Slavery
    • Fashion
  • After the Red Lights
    • Current Conversations

My Little Sister Advertisements

February 19, 2015 · by Kathleen Johnson · in Elizabeth Robins, My Little Sister (1913) by Elizabeth Robins, White Slavery. ·
The Story You can't forget

Publicity for the book version of My Little Sister advertised it as “the story you can’t forget.”  Another advertisement proclaimed the book to be “the most widely-discussed novel in New York to-day.”

Ad for My Little Sister

Ad2 for My Little Sister

Tags: elizabeth robins, Prostitution, White Slavery

Post navigation

← Ourselves by Rachel Crothers
Frohman Announces Production of My Little Sister →

Search

SEX FOR SALE: SIX PROGRESSIVE-ERA BROTHEL DRAMAS

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

TagCloud

actresses Adaptation Adaptations Anthony Comstock Birth Control brothel career censorship chinese prostitution Corruption Crime drug abuse elizabeth robins Eugene O'Neill Evelyn Nesbit Feminism Film Clips George Bernard Shaw Grace Elliston Immigration journalism Katie N. Johnson Miami University miscegenation Morality Mrs. Warren's Profession new woman Night Court (Women's Court) Pendleton King performance Poverty Prostitution Provincetown Players race reform sing-song girls Sisters in Sin: Brothel Drama in America Suffrage theatre tuberculoisis Urbanization Vice White Slavery Women's Work yellow face performance

xxxx

May 2025
M T W T F S S
 1234
567891011
12131415161718
19202122232425
262728293031  
« Nov    
Proudly powered by WordPress | Theme: Oxygen by AlienWP.