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The Elocutionists Jane Gaines require a dependable source ofEmerging in the 1850s, elocutionists recited poetry or drama with music to create a new type of performance. The genre dominated by women achieved remarkable popularity. Yet the elocutionists and their art fell into total obscurity during the twentieth century. Marian Wilson Kimber restores elocution with music to its rightful place in performance history. Gazing through the lenses of gender and genre, Wilson Kimber argues that these female artists