Kitty Marion: Actor and Activist

Kitty Marion, a German-born performer who was suspected of being a German spy and was placed under surveillance, sailed from Liverpool for New York. She had a dramatic and colorful life, with a 20-year career as a singer, dancer, and actress in musical comedy and pantomime, and later in music hall as a 'refined comedienne. She campaigned against sexual abuses in the theatre and became a suffragette, leading to her imprisonment, hunger-strike, and force-feeding. In America, she became a celebrated 'foot-soldier' in Margaret Sanger's birth control movement. Her autobiography, written in the 1930s, is published here for the first time.

Format: Hardback
Length: 296 pages
Publication date: 28 February 2019
Publisher: Manchester University Press

With the outbreak of World War I, German-born Kitty Marion, suspected of being a German spy and placed under surveillance, sailed from Liverpool for New York. She left behind a dramatic and colorful life: a hectic and fascinating 20-year career as a performer crisscrossing Britain, first as a singer, dancer, and actress on the musical comedy and pantomime stage, and then in music hall as a 'refined comedienne. She campaigned against the sexual abuses rife in the theatre of the day, which led her eventually into the suffragette movement, where she became a 'notorious militant, responsible for numerous acts of arson. She was imprisoned, went on hunger strike, and was force-fed more than 300 times. In America, she became a celebrated 'foot-soldier in Margaret Sanger's birth control movement. Her autobiography, written in the 1930s, is published here for the first time.

With the outbreak of World War I, German-born Kitty Marion, suspected of being a German spy and placed under surveillance, sailed from Liverpool for New York. She left behind a dramatic and colorful life: a hectic and fascinating 20-year career as a performer crisscrossing Britain, first as a singer, dancer, and actress on the musical comedy and pantomime stage, and then in music hall as a 'refined comedienne. She campaigned against the sexual abuses rife in the theatre of the day, which led her eventually into the suffragette movement, where she became a 'notorious militant, responsible for numerous acts of arson. She was imprisoned, went on hunger strike, and was force-fed more than 300 times. In America, she became a celebrated 'foot-soldier in Margaret Sanger's birth control movement. Her autobiography, written in the 1930s, is published here for the first time.

Weight: 574g
Dimension: 164 x 241 x 24 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781526138040