On Her Own Terms: the Highway-woman

This is an extract from Anna Field’s ‘Masculinity and Myth’, which won the 2014 History Today undergraduate dissertation prize, awarded in conjunction with the Royal Historical Society.

Evelyn Wrentan plays a highway-woman in the 1935 film, Hands Up.

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