In 1900, Elizabeth Robins, an actress and women’s rights activist based in London, travelled to the gold rush town of Nome, Alaska, to find her missing brother Raymond Robins. She arrived immediately after the “Nome boom had busted, and busted bad.” Listen to her experiences in Living Under Martial Law.
Elizabeth Robins in a London production of Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler.
Here is an excerpt from “Signs of the Times,” a pro-suffrage essay written by Robins in 1909 - two decades before women in the United Kingdom received equal voting rights.
