From Hedda Gabler to Votes for Women : Elizabeth Robins's Early Feminist Critique of Ibsen

Farfan, Penny

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“…Given that the hidden author of the translation was a feminist activist herself, who was collaborating with other feminists of her time in different social and cultural enterprises, it is interesting to try to determine to what extent this translation is permeated by that feminist content and how that can be demonstrated at the textual level, as this article shall examine. This is expressly important in the case of Ibsen's text because it has often been utilized as a feminist text in different target cultures (Holledge, Helland, et al 2016;Templeton 1990;Finney 1994;Farfan 1996;Chang 2004;Langås 2005;Moi 2006;Fischer-Lichte 2011). There is little research about how it specifically influenced the development of first wave feminism in the South of Europe and particularly Spain, and none focusing on the translated texts.…”

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Womanhandling Ibsen’s A Doll’s House: Feminist Translation Strategies in a Spanish Translation from 1917

Muñiz

2018

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This article analyzes a 1917 indirect translation of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House (1879) by María Lejárraga (1874-1974) as an example of early feminist translation. Relying on the existing theoretical outcomes at the intersection of gender and translation studies, it proposes a way of analyzing diverse translation strategies as a means for womanhandling the literary text, and thus making the most of the prevailing feminist interpretation of its international reception while reinforcing the budding feminist debate in Silver Age Spain and facilitating a specific understanding of the play. The importance of this case study as an example of early feminist translation is based on several factors: (a) this theatre text had a symbolic value in first wave feminism; (b) this Spanish translation was widespread due to Ibsen’s international fame and the national fame of the (overt) mediator Gregorio Martinez Sierra; (c) the feminist activism of the (covert) translator that made her select the text to spread a “thesis” she deemed necessary in Spain at that time for the developing of feminism; and (d) the numerous interventions at different levels (textual, contextual and paratextual) traceable in the translation.

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Womanhandling Ibsen’s A Doll’s House: Feminist Translation Strategies in a Spanish Translation from 1917

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A Woman’s Play: Elizabeth Robins and Suffrage Drama

Christian

2020

Marriage and Late-Victorian Dramatists

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Cosmopolitanism, Feminism, and the Moving Body

Walkowitz

2010

Victorian Literature and Culture

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In October 1894, Mrs. Laura OrmistonChant, a feminist purity reformer, successfully challenged the music and dancing license of the Empire Theatre of Varieties before the licensing committee of the London County Council. Mrs. Chant raised two objections to the management of the Empire: first, that “the promenade, an open space behind the dress circle in front of the bar,” where 500 people circulated nightly, was used “as the habitual resort of prostitutes in pursuit of their traffic.” Her “second indictment” was that parts of the performance on stage were exceedingly indecent, including the costumes of the ballet dancers (“London County Council”). Chant had gone to the Empire promenade, twice dressed in her “best” evening gown, and been herself accosted. Her protest, declaredThe Sketch, provoked the “battle of the Empire,” a “great fight . . . waged with a war of words, a battery of correspondence, and a skirmish of sketches” (qtd in Faulk 77). Visually commemorated in the illustrated press and in numerous music hall spoofs, the “Battle of the Empire” was most extensively covered in the correspondence columns of theDaily Telegraph, under the heading, “Prudes on the Prowl.”

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From Hedda Gabler to Votes for Women : Elizabeth Robins's Early Feminist Critique of Ibsen

Cited by 7 publications

References 3 publications

Womanhandling Ibsen’s A Doll’s House: Feminist Translation Strategies in a Spanish Translation from 1917

Womanhandling Ibsen’s A Doll’s House: Feminist Translation Strategies in a Spanish Translation from 1917

A Woman’s Play: Elizabeth Robins and Suffrage Drama

Cosmopolitanism, Feminism, and the Moving Body

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