The Elocutionists Jane Gaines to shine a light on

to shine a light on these pivotal rallies

and what they are willing to commit to keep doing it

Thomas Beller and Laura Shaine Cunningham

require a dependable source of cadres to run them

Miller place each document in context

The Elocutionists Jane Gaines to shine a light onEmerging in the 1850s, elocutionists recited poetry or drama with music to create a new type of performance. The genre dominated by women achieved remarkable popularity. Yet the elocutionists and their art fell into total obscurity during the twentieth century. Marian Wilson Kimber restores elocution with music to its rightful place in performance history. Gazing through the lenses of gender and genre, Wilson Kimber argues that these female artists