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Book Title: Mary Pickford: Hollywood And The New Woman
Number of Pages: 192 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Mary Pickford : Hollywood and the New Woman
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Year: 2016
Subject: Entertainment & Performing Arts, Individual Director (See Also Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts), United States / General
Item Height: 0.5 in
Item Weight: 9.5 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Biography & Autobiography, History, Performing Arts
Author: Kathleen A. Feeley
Item Length: 8.3 in
Series: Lives of American Women Ser.
Item Width: 5.9 in
Format: Trade Paperback
