Hannah Snell

Standard Name: Snell, Hannah

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Textual Features Cicely Hamilton
The pageant required more than fifty actresses, only three of whom had speaking parts, to portray famous women from history (not all of them remembered today). In the initial, Scala production, the only speaking role...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Ménie Muriel Dowie
The book is a collection of reprinted pamphlets put together on the lives of Madame Velasquez , Hannah Snell , Mary Anne Talbot , and Christian Davies , with an introduction by MMD . Its...

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1750: There was published The Female Soldier; or,...

Building item

1750

There was published The Female Soldier; or, The Surprising Life and Adventures of Hannah Snell, who claimed to have served undetected for five years in the army, wearing men's clothes.
Robinson, Jane. Pandora’s Daughters: The Secret History of Enterprising Women. Constable, 2002.
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1910: Bram Stoker published Famous Impostors, a...

Writing climate item

1910

Bram Stoker published Famous Impostors, a set of sensational biographies which includes a chapter on cross-dressing women (particularly female soldiers like Hannah Snell ), and wild speculation that Queen Elizabeth the First was actually...

31 July 1991: Shirley Gee based her play Warrior, published...

Women writers item

31 July 1991

Shirley Gee based her play Warrior, published this year, on the life of Hannah Snell , who joined the army and went to sea, wearing men's clothes and searching for her husband, and whose...

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