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Women's History ALIVE! Presentsthe one woman touring play "Miss Fuller's Letter"(formally known as Bride's Cake) "Miss Fuller's Letter" delights audiences as the fictional 1880s character, Francis Fuller bakes a cake in which she blends her dreams for college and marriage. Some distinctive women give her a hand and some advice. These women are: |
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- Victoria Woodhull who
had only three years of schooling yet ran for president of the United States
of America
- Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell who
was turned down by 29 medical colleges before becoming the first woman
doctor
- Marietta Holley
a prolific humorist writer from the 1870s to 1910
- Hetty Green the richest woman in the world at the turn of the century.
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"Miss Fuller's Letter" is a forty minute play and is appropriate for audiences from 3rd grade to senior citizens. It has been enjoyed at schools, museums, libraries, churches, mother daughter banquets, camps, and conferences. After viewing the play as an assembly upper elementary through high school students can participate in workshops where the students get to write their own skit, put on costumes, and perform for each other.
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To Receive a Brochure in the Mail Women's History ALIVE! 1 800 484-1773 (7638) |
Other Plays: |
Elizabeth Blackwell websites: by Holly
Wilder, by
Juleen, Hobart
& William Smith Colleges
Marietta Holley . Samantha at Saratoga: or "Racin' After Fashion." Philadelphia: Hubbard Publishing Co. 1887.
Lewis Arthur. The Day They Shook the Plum Tree. 1963.*
Meade, Marion. Free Woman: The Life and Times of Victoria
Woodhull . New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1976.
Notorious
Victoria: The Life of Victoria Woodhull, Uncensored
The
Woman Who Ran for President: The Many Lives of Victoria Woodhull
Sparkes, Boyden and Samuel Taylor Moore. Hetty Green: The Witch of Wall Street. Doubleday, Doran & Co. Inc. Garden City Ny. 1935. originally printed in 1930 under the name, Hetty Green: A Woman Who Loved Money.
Wilson, Dorothy Clarke. Lone Woman: The Story of Elizabeth Blackwell
the First Woman Doctor. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. 1970.
Elizabeth
Blackwell: First Woman Doctor of Modern Times