Biography & Autobiography Entertainment & Performing Arts
Winnie Lightner
Tomboy of the Talkies
- Publisher
- University Press of Mississippi
- Initial publish date
- Dec 2016
- Category
- Entertainment & Performing Arts, General, History & Criticism
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781496809834
- Publish Date
- Dec 2016
- List Price
- $43.95
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Description
The biography of the spunky “Song a Minute Girl,? the first actress to have her spoken words censored
About the author
David L. Lightner, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, is professor emeritus of history at the University of Alberta. He is the author of Slavery and the Commerce Power: How the Struggle against the Interstate Slave Trade Led to the Civil War; Asylum, Prison, and Poorhouse: The Writings and Reform Work of Dorothea Dix in Illinois; and Labor on the Illinois Central Railroad, 1852-1900: The Evolution of an Industrial Environment. He became interested in Winnie Lightner because of their shared surname, but he is not related to her.