Genre, Class and Gender in a Suffragist Operetta: Melinda and Her Sisters (1916) at the Waldorf-Astoria.

Alva Belmont and Elsa Maxwell's Melinda and Her Sisters (1916) is a little-known work promoting women's suffrage, which was publicly performed only once in New York City. It was advertised as an operetta, a decision which minimised its overt stylistic and functional similarities to other genres of p...

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Published in:	Cambridge Opera Journal Vol. 35; no. 3; pp. 205 - 224
Main Author:	Winter, Kendall Hatch
Format:	Article
Published:	Cambridge University Press Nov2023
Subjects:	Women's suffrage Suffragists Gender Sisters Musical performance Musicals New York (N.Y.)
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