Annette Förster is a media historian and film curator who specializes in women and film history.

IntroductionArchival and Other SourcesPart I: Adriënne Solser, the NetherlandsAdriënne Solser on the Dutch Popular StageThe Formative Years 1885-1904The Years of Achievement 1904-1914 The Years of Character Comedy 1914-1920Adriënne Solser and the Dutch Silent CinemaInteraction Stage and Screen 1896-1930Dutch Comic Film during the 1920s Adriënne Solser's Production Company 1924-1928EpiloguePart II: Musidora, FranceMusidora on the French Popular StageJeanne Rocques becoming Musidora 1906-1912Musidora in Music-hall and the Parisian Revue 1912-1914Musidora and the French Silent CinemaMusidora as an Actress at Gaumont 1914-1916Musidora as an Actress 1916-1918Musidora Writing, Directing, Acting, and Producing Films 1919-1924EpiloguePart III: Nell Shipman, North AmericaNell Shipman on the American Popular StageNell Shipman's Stage Career 1907-1911Nell Shipman and the American Silent CinemaNell Shipman as a Scenarist 1912-1917Nell Shipman Acting for the Camera 1915-1918The Shipman-Curwood Film Producing Company 1918-1920Nell Shipman Writing, Directing, Acting in, and Producing Films 1920-1925EpilogueConclusionsCareer Overviews

This book offers one of the most comprehensive accounts yet of the place of women in silent film in Europe.