Sheila Stowell

Standard Name: Stowell, Sheila

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Literary responses Elizabeth Baker
Critic Sheila Stowell , contrasting Baker's heroine with Bernard Shaw 's more ambivalent characterizations of the New Woman, sees the role of Edith as a clear and positive alternative for women.
Stowell, Sheila. A Stage of Their Own. University of Michigan Press.
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Weiss, Rudolf. “Versions of Emancipation: The Dramatic World of Elizabeth Baker”. Sprachkunst, Vol.
20
, No. 2, pp. 305-16.
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Literary responses Inez Bensusan
Critic Sheila Stowell finds this an effective and persuasive suffrage play.
Stowell, Sheila. A Stage of Their Own. University of Michigan Press.
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Literary responses George Paston
The Sketch recognized the feminism in the play's comic ending, which put the whole theory of the solidary of women . . . into dramatic form.
Kaplan, Joel H., and Sheila Stowell. Theatre and Fashion: Oscar Wilde to the Suffragettes. Cambridge University Press.
168
The Era immediately saw through GP 's masculine...
Literary responses Githa Sowerby
The play garnered high praise from critics. One reviewer placed GSin the very first rank of our playwrights
Fitzsimmons, Linda. “Githa Sowerby (1876-1970)”. New Woman Plays, edited by Linda Fitzsimmons and Viv Gardner, Methuen, pp. 135-7.
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and Emma Goldman called her a genius [whose] exceptional maturity is a phenomenon rarely observed...

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Texts

Stowell, Sheila. A Stage of Their Own. University of Michigan Press, 1992.
Kaplan, Joel H., and Sheila Stowell. Theatre and Fashion: Oscar Wilde to the Suffragettes. Cambridge University Press, 1994.