Naomi Paxton - Researcher and Performer
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    • Talks, Workshops and Walks
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    • Suffrage Play Collections
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  • Comedy
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Naomi Paxton - Researcher and Performer

Writing and Publications

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2022. The Edinburgh Companion to Modernism in Contemporary Theatre, co-edited with Adrian Curtin, Nicholas Johnson and Claire Warden. (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press)
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2020. Stage Rights! The Actresses' Franchise League, activism and politics: 1908-1958. (Manchester: Manchester University Press)

2018. The Methuen Drama Book of Suffrage Plays: Taking the Stage (London: Bloomsbury)

2013. The Methuen Drama Book of Suffrage Plays.  (London: Bloomsbury)

2022. ‘”Your Great Adventure is to report her faithfully”: the centring of women’s voices and stories in suffrage theatre’ in the Routledge Companion to Literature and Feminism. eds. Rachell Carroll and Fiona Tolan. (London: Routledge)

2022. 'Suffrage on the Edwardian Stage' in The Routledge Companion to British Women's Suffrage. ed. Krista Cowman. (London: Routledge)

2021. '"Will you, won't you, will you, won't you join the Suffrage Dance?" Reframing Alice in Wonderland for Edwardian activists' in Women's Suffrage in Word, Image, Music and Drama; The Making of a Movement. eds. Christopher Riley and Lucy Ella Rose. (London: Routledge)

2019. ‘Very much alive and kicking: the Actresses’ Franchise League from 1914-1928’ in  Stage Women: Female Theatre Workers, Professional Practice and Agency in the Early 20th Century. eds. Maggie B. Gale and Kate Dorney. (Manchester University Press)
 
2019. 'Suffragette Judy: Punch and Judy at Suffrage Fairs and Exhibitions in Edwardian London' in Women and Puppetry: Critical and Historical Investigations. eds. Alissa Mello, Claudia Orenstein, and Cariad Astles. (London: Routledge)

2018. ‘Vera Holme’ and ‘Elsie Howey’ in The Women Who Built Bristol.  ed. Jane Duffus. (Bristol: Tangent Books)

2015. ‘Cicely Hamilton’ inThe What The Frock book of funny women. ed. Jane Duffus. (Somerset: BCF Books)

​2021. 'Early Stage Pioneers' in 50 Women in Theatre. (Richmond: Aurora Metro)
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2018. 'Beatrice Wright' for Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press (900 words)

2017.  ‘Actresses’ Franchise League’ for Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press (3000 words)
 
2017. ‘Inez Bensusan’ for Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press (1250 words)
 
2017. ‘Recoveries: Cicely Hamilton and Christopher St John – ‘How The Vote Was Won” for Key Words: A Journal of Cultural Materialism, Spokesman Books (1000 words)
 
 2017. 'What was the Suffrage Movement?' for Trusted Source, Oxford University and The National Trust

​How the magician's assistant creates the illusion for Wellcome Collection, 2019

​'A century on from the first female MP... ' for Times Red Box, 2018

'Still Marching, Still Inspiring, Still Campaigning' for Google Arts and Culture Road to Equality ​project, 2018

Naomi is an interviewee in Gwenno Dafydd's book about female comics Stand Up & Sock It to Them Sister (Parthian Books, 2016)

Naomi's blog is on this website, and she has also blogged for Poor Theatres, the Society of Theatre Research New Researchers Network,
Talking Humanities, UK Parliament Vote 100, and the Being Human Festival.

​She has written theatre reviews for websites including The F Word and The LGBTQ Arts Review. 

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