Maud Allan

Standard Name: Allan, Maud

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Features B. M. Croker
The hero of this novel (after whom it is titled) is a gentleman who (rather like Terence) has to deal with Anglo-Indian society looking at him askance because he takes a job working on the...
Textual Features E. Nesbit
Salome and the Head deals quite revealingly with female sexual experience. It is set at Yalding on the Medway. Sandra, its heroine, a dancer famous for her rendering of Wilde 's Salome (to Strauss

Timeline

1907
The London County Council banned stage tableaus or living pictures (erotic in content), and in their place the Palace Theatre engaged Maud Allan as a solo dancer.
April 1918
An article in Noel Pemberton Billing 's weekly Vigilante alleged that the Germans had identified 47,000 Britons who could be blackmailed into treason because of their deviant sexuality.