Actresses' Franchise League

An earlier version involving tableaux had been given at Caxton Hall in February this year. The Scala production was sponsored by the Actresses' Franchise League . The cast included Ellen Terry , Lillah McCarthy ,...

She was arrested in 1909 for setting a pillar box on fire. She worked for the Women's Social and Political Union , the Writers' Franchise League (which she helped found), the Catholic Women's Suffrage Society

EC became a member of the newly formed Actresses' Franchise League .

EWW set out with conservative views on the Woman Question, though her early experience on a western farm meant that she took it for granted that women would be active and self-reliant. Her gender...

She found the occasion amusing and exhilarating; she rushed around and flirted with men; but she continued her account: But I am in earnest. I really do feel a great belief in the need of...

CH was an active member of several suffrage organizations, always aligning herself with the non-militant suffragists. She first belonged to the Women's Social and Political Union , but in 1907 she left to join the...

Inez Bensusan was an Australian-born actress who played a prominent role in the Actresses' Franchise League in London. Although she wrote only three one-act plays herself, as head of the AFL Play Department she...

The production was part of the Coronation Week festivities: earlier that week, on 17 June, many women's suffrage societies joined forces for an enormous Women's Coronation Procession.Miss Appleyard's Awakening...

The play's vivid characters and snappy dialogue, alongside its minimal staging requirements, made it one of the most popular plays in the AFL's suffrage repertoire. That year, the Connoisseurs theatre group mounted a production...

During the war this play became popular with British troops through the auspices of Woman's Theatre Camp Entertainments , an organization formed by Inez Bensusan after the demise of Actresses' Franchise League .

Like Nora, Hedda Gabler became a feminist icon. At the Coronation Suffrage Pageant, the spectacular suffrage event of 17 June 1911, the contingent from the Actresses' Franchise League was led by an actress on horseback...

It had gone into rehearsal shortly before the end of 1911. Several of the women who acted in this production were members of the Actresses' Franchise League . One of the principal actors, GS

It had another performance at the Laurels in Putney on 14 July 1911. The Actresses' Franchise League published the play in 1912. The Apple was the only one of IB 's plays to reach...

It was part of a triple bill with Cicely Hamilton 's Jack and Jill and a Friend and Margaret Wynne Nevinson 's In the Workhouse. Another performance, again directed by Edith Craig, was staged...

The 1930 Players were a group organized by Inez Bensusan , an Australian-born actress and playwright who had been instrumental in forming the Actresses' Franchise League . Penelope Forgives was never published, but a typescript...