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Non-Fiction
The Female Wits
Virago
One of Virago's earliest historical non fiction works
A large anthology of plays by women playwrights of the Restoration, plus biographies of the playwrights, tables and lists of their works. Also includes the full text of a satire on three of the women - The Female Wits.
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A Woman of No Character
Faber & Faber
A biography (using her own writings wherever possible) of the journalist and playwright Delarivier Manley, whose work helped bring about the downfall of Churchill's ancestor the Duke of Marlborough.
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The Well-Known Troublemaker
Faber & Faber
A biography of the riotous 18th century actress, writer and producer (not to mention oilwoman, puppeteer, male impersonator and sausage-seller), Charlotte Charke.
The book incorporates her own autobiography - with newly researched facts about her life.
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The Years Between
Virago
A collection of British female playwrights of the first half of the 20th century. Including such warhorses as Black Chiffon and The Constant Nymph, as well as war-time revue sketches by Hermione Gingold and the like, and biographies of the writers, Daphne Du Maurier, Clemence Dane, Lesley Storm etcetera.
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The Female Tatler
Dent Everyman
A collection of papers from the original Female Tatler, a twice weekly broadsheet from 1709-10.
A collection of comedies by women, with biographies of Mary Pix, Susanna Centlivre, Ariadne and Aphra Behn.
Fidelis, together with 4 actresses (from a pool which includes Celia Imrie, Jane Wymark, Anne Lambton, Michele Wade, Sian Thomas and Venetia Barrett) performs a show based on this book. The performance lasts anything from 45 minutes to an hour and a half (depending on the demands of the venue).
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Female Playwrights of the Restoration
Dent Everyman
A collection of comedies by women, with biographies of Mary Pix, Susanna Centlivre, Ariadne and Aphra Behn.
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A Misogynist's Source Book
Jonathan Cape
An anthology of quotes against women (some by women), which through the arrangement, shows up some shocking and unlikely like-minded thinkers. The introduction discusses the links and relevance of the quotes which range from the Bible to the Beatles; Hindu scriptures to Hitler.
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A Bluffer's Guide to Theatre
Ravette
Humorous guide to the Theatre - its history and traditions.
Re-published in the USA as Bluff your way in British Theatre.
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Wicked
Virago
An anthology of writing by funny women through the ages. Dorothy Parker, Jane Austen, Aphra Behn, Muriel Spark, Joan Rivers, and many many more
Wicked should be prescribed reading. Chemists should stock it. Who needs Prozac? Sue Townsend.
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Fidelis has contributed to guide books, encyclopaedias, journals and publications, including the Palgrave Encyclopaedia of British Women’s Writing, Theatre Notebook, City Secrets - London, The Independent, The Guardian, The Observer, The Times, The Literary Review, TLS, The Daily Mail & The London Evening Standard.
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Charlotte Charke emerges as an eccentric and a clown whose rightful place was on the stage; not perhaps overly talented, but a real trouper, who at long last has found in Fidelis Morgan a spirited defender.
The Times
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