Abstract
ABSTRACTThis article examines the representation of class, gender and ‘race’ in contemporaneous reports in the Red Letter magazine of the content of music hall acts, and the audience reaction to that content. Although research is still ongoing it seems to indicate that, contrary to the popular trope of ‘women not being funny’, female comic performers were widespread, at least before the First World War.
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