Exclusive of Most Works by Gates

Elizabeth Robins Bibliography,

exclusive of most works by Gates

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Elizabeth RobinsBibliography

Prepared for First Actresses Conference, Ohio State

(now amended) to accompany

"First Hedda, First Hilda, and 'Hilda Harnessed to a Purpose':

Elizabeth Robins, Ibsen, and Women's Suffrage"

by Joanne E. Gates © 2014

[Excluding works by Gates: see separate handout]

Barstow, Susan Torrey. "'Hedda Is All of Us': Late-Victorian Women at the Matinee." Victorian Studies 43.3 (Spring 2001): 387-411.

Cima, Gay Gibson. "Elizabeth Robins: The Genesis of an Independent Manageress." Theatre Survey 22.2 (1980): 145-63.

----. "Elizabeth Robins: Ibsen Actress Manageress." PhD diss, Cornell University, 1978.

----. "Ibsen and the Critical Actor." Chapter 1 of Performing Women: Female Characters, Male Playwrights, and the Modern Stage. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1993: 20-59.

Diamond, Elin.Unmaking Mimesis: Essays on Feminist Theatre. London and New York: Routledge, 1998.

Farfan, Penny. "From HeddaGablerto Votes for Women: Elizabeth Robins's Early Feminist Critique of Ibsen." Theatre Journal 48.1 (Mar. 1996): 59-78.

---- . Women, Performance, and Modernism.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Gates, Joanne E. Elizabeth Robins 1862-1952: Actress, Novelist, Feminist. Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alaska Press, 1994.

Gates, Joanne E. [Also see separate handout.]

Godfrey, Emelyne. Feminity, Crime and Self-Defence in Victorian Literature and Society: From Dagger-Fans to Suffragettes. New York: Palgrave Macmillan (St. Martin's), 2012.

Guide to the Elizabeth Robins Papers. Fales Library Special Collection.New York University Libraries. Accessed June 2014 <

Heath, Mary. T. "A Crisis in the Life of the Actress: Ibsen in England." PhD diss. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1986.

Joannou, Maroula. "'Hilda, Harnessed to a Purpose': Elizabeth Robins, Ibsen, and the Vote." Comparative Drama 44.2 (Summer 2010): 179-200.

John, Angela V. Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life 1862-1952. London and New York: Routledge, 1995.

Jusová, Iveta. The New Woman and the Empire.Gender, Racial, and Colonial Issues in Sarah Grand, George Egerton, Elizabeth Robins, and Amy Levy.Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2005.

Kelly, Katherine. E., edModern Drama by Women 1880s - 1930s: An International Anthology. London: Routledge, 1986.

Lodge, David. Author, Author. New York: Viking, 2004.

MacKay, Carol Hanbery. Creative Negativity: Four Victorian Exemplars of the Female Quest. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002.

Marcus, Jane. "Art and Anger."Feminist Studies 4.1. (Feb. 1978): 68-98.

---- . Art and Anger: Reading Like a Woman. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1988.

----. "The Divine Rage to Be Didactic: Introduction to Elizabeth Robins' The Convert." Old Westbury: The Feminist Press, 1980.

----. "Elizabeth Robins: A Biographical and Critical Study. PhD diss. Northwestern University. 1973.

----. "Transatlantic Sisterhood: Labor and Suffrage Links in the Letters of Elizabeth Robins and Emmeline Pankhurst." Signs 3.3 (Spring 1978): 744-755.

Matlaw, Myron. "Robins Hits the Road: Trouping with O'Neill in the 1880s." Theatre Survey 29:2 (Nov. 1988): 173-92.

Powell, J. Kerry. "Oscar Wilde, Elizabeth Robins and the Theatre of the Future."Modern Drama 37.1 (Spring 1994): 220-237.

----. Women and Victorian Theatre.Cambridge: University Press, 1997.

Savoy, Eric. "Elizabeth Robins's Hair."Review of Women, Modernism, and Performance by Penny Farfan. The Henry James Review 28 (2007): 182-198.

Showalter, Elaine. A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Brontë to Lessing. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1977.

Stowell, Sheila. A Stage of Their Own: Feminist Playwrights of the Suffrage era. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1992.

Thomas, Sue. Elizabeth Robins (1862-1952): A Bibliography. Victorian Fiction Research Guide. Queensland: University of Australia., 1994. Converted to accessible text file at:

----. "Elizabeth Robins and the New Review." Victorian Periodicals Review 28.1 (Spring 1995): 63-33.

----. "Sexual Matter and Votes for Women."Papers on Language and Literature 33. 1 (1997): 47-70.

Wiley, Catherine."Staging Infanticide: The Refusal of Representation in Elizabeth Robins's 'Alan's Wife'."Theatre Journal 42. 4: Disciplines of Theater: Fin De Siècle Studies (Dec.1990): 432-446.

Winkiel, Laura. "Suffrage Burlesque: Modernist Performance in Elizabeth Robins'The Convert." Modern Fiction Studies.50.3 (Fall 2004): 570-591.