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Women Of Forgotten Importance: Three Stories
"History has been cruel to females. It often does not acknowledge when we have either accomplished something or have had great wrongs done to us. These are stories which, in my humble opinion, are also valid and are in danger of being forgotten."
Three stories of women, not who have held swords aloft, but who have been dealt a certain hand and had to survive because of it. From the ostracised wise woman c. 700 A.D., to Oscar Wilde's long-suffering wife, to the Pendle Witch child whose family were hanged as witches. These are the first three one-woman shows by Lexi Wolfe, transcribed here as stories in the first person narrative.
Three stories of women, not who have held swords aloft, but who have been dealt a certain hand and had to survive because of it. From the ostracised wise woman c. 700 A.D., to Oscar Wilde's long-suffering wife, to the Pendle Witch child whose family were hanged as witches. These are the first three one-woman shows by Lexi Wolfe, transcribed here as stories in the first person narrative.
128 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 15, 2018
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About the author
Lexi Wolfe
7 books2 followersLexi was born in Sheffield to teacher parents. She spent much of her young life between her hometown and Pakistan, where her parents and, following their separation, her mother worked as teachers. While very young, she toyed with the idea of being a writer or a singer.
After moving back to England permanently at age eleven, she attended the prestigious Brantwood Independent School for Girls. She also became a regular student at the Sheffield Youth Theatre, after a flyer for the drama lessons were posted through their house. Lexi had a very shy nature and attended mainly to 'bring her out of her shell'. She picked up much confidence and her otherwise quiet behaviour thrived in the environs of drama.
After partaking in many of the Sheffield Youth Theatre's classes and shows, she threw herself into any drama lessons and local events that she could find. She appeared in many school productions, appearing as Peter in The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe when Brantwood took its annual school production to the famous Crucible Theatre in Sheffield for the Children's Festival. She also became the youngest recurring member of the local Dilys Guite Theatre company, at the Lantern Theatre, close to Brantwood School. While still a teenager, she decided she wished to pursue a serious career in acting.
After finishing school and returning from a month of teaching in Italy on her Gap Year, she attended the Liverpool Hope University and gained a BA Hons in Creative And Performing Arts, then was admitted onto the Masters Course in Acting at the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts. To make ends meet, throughout her studies, she would work as a 'Spirit Guide' with the Shiverpool Ghost Tours, telling ghost stories in a dramatic style and playing a character as part of a tour around central Liverpool.
Following working in Theatre In Education and later spending some time in Los Angeles, Lexi moved to London, where she lived all over the city, moving six times in one year!
In 2013, she self-published her first book, Better Off Dead: The Story Of Rose The Vampire Fledgling. Later that year, she met Andy Wolfe and the two got engaged in February of the following year. Andy encouraged Lexi to pursue her writing even further, and to create her own work through stage and screenplays. She started working with him under his company of Flashlight Creative and the two set up Wild Wolfe Productions. They used a script Lexi had previously written as their first project - short film Learning To Talk (2014).
Lexi lives with Andy in Ruislip in Greater London, constantly writing, creating films and acting.
After moving back to England permanently at age eleven, she attended the prestigious Brantwood Independent School for Girls. She also became a regular student at the Sheffield Youth Theatre, after a flyer for the drama lessons were posted through their house. Lexi had a very shy nature and attended mainly to 'bring her out of her shell'. She picked up much confidence and her otherwise quiet behaviour thrived in the environs of drama.
After partaking in many of the Sheffield Youth Theatre's classes and shows, she threw herself into any drama lessons and local events that she could find. She appeared in many school productions, appearing as Peter in The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe when Brantwood took its annual school production to the famous Crucible Theatre in Sheffield for the Children's Festival. She also became the youngest recurring member of the local Dilys Guite Theatre company, at the Lantern Theatre, close to Brantwood School. While still a teenager, she decided she wished to pursue a serious career in acting.
After finishing school and returning from a month of teaching in Italy on her Gap Year, she attended the Liverpool Hope University and gained a BA Hons in Creative And Performing Arts, then was admitted onto the Masters Course in Acting at the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts. To make ends meet, throughout her studies, she would work as a 'Spirit Guide' with the Shiverpool Ghost Tours, telling ghost stories in a dramatic style and playing a character as part of a tour around central Liverpool.
Following working in Theatre In Education and later spending some time in Los Angeles, Lexi moved to London, where she lived all over the city, moving six times in one year!
In 2013, she self-published her first book, Better Off Dead: The Story Of Rose The Vampire Fledgling. Later that year, she met Andy Wolfe and the two got engaged in February of the following year. Andy encouraged Lexi to pursue her writing even further, and to create her own work through stage and screenplays. She started working with him under his company of Flashlight Creative and the two set up Wild Wolfe Productions. They used a script Lexi had previously written as their first project - short film Learning To Talk (2014).
Lexi lives with Andy in Ruislip in Greater London, constantly writing, creating films and acting.
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March 8, 2018
It was great to be able to read these three scripts to Lexi Wolfe's wonderful one-woman shows back to back, with explanatory notes and introductions. Two of the women featured are historical characters, one - 'The Witch In The Woods' - is fictional, but embodies the story of all those village 'wise women' ostracised by their communities following the establishment of Christianity as the official religion. Continuing this theme, 'The Pendle Witch' gives a credible, tragic voice to Jennet Device, whose testimony famously convicted three members of her family and seven neighbours during the infamous Witch Trials carried out under James I. Sandwiched in between we have Constance Wilde, wife of Oscar and mother of his two sons - a celebrity, political activist and vocal feminist of her day, but so sidelined by history that many today are surprised to hear that she existed at all. The author admits to having made use of 'poetic licence' in giving voice to these women, but the end result more than justifies this as we have powerful, moving and utterly credible testimony to their lives, emotions, hopes and failures. Four and a half stars. My only reservation is there are a few typos that a good editor should have spotted, but you get these in almost any book. Thoroughly recommended.
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