Events Timeline

Orlando includes short event entries, freestanding and embedded in author profiles, about moments and processes relevant to literary history and organized into four categories: Women writers, Writing Climate, Political Climate, and Social Climate. Explore the timelines by searching for date(s) and/or words or phrases associated with them.

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Madeleine Lucette Ryley: 16 November 1905

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16 November 1905

MLR 's four-act domestic comedy Mrs. Grundy opened at the Scala Theatre in London.
Engle, Sherry D. New Women Dramatists in America, 1890-1920. Palgrave MacMilan, 2007.
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Christopher St John : 12 November 1909

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12 November 1909

The one-act play The Pot and the Kettle by CSJ and Cicely Hamilton was first performed at the Scala Theatre , London, accompanying Hamilton's A Pageant of Great Women.
Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press, 1973.
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Cicely Hamilton: 12 November 1909

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12 November 1909

The premiere of CH 's suffrage drama A Pageant of Great Women, with direction and some collaboration by Edith Craig , was given at the Scala Theatre in London.
Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell, 1998.
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Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell, 1998.
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Cockin, Katharine. “Cicely Hamilton’s Warriors: dramatic reinventions of militancy in the British women’s suffrage movement”. Women’s History Review, Vol.
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Una Marson: 15-17 January 1934

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15-17 January 1934

UM 's At What a Price ran for three nights at the Scala Theatre , where it became the first black colonial production in London's West End.
Jarrett-Macauley, Delia. The Life of Una Marson, 1905-65. Manchester University Press, 1998.
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