Christopher St John

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Standard Name: St John, Christopher
Birth Name: Christabel Marshall
Pseudonym: Christopher St John
Writing from the beginning of the twentieth century, CSJ produced novels, biography, and love-journals, as well as her work for the stage, for which she wrote translations, adaptations, and original plays. She is best remembered for the suffrage play How the Vote Was Won, co-written with Cicely Hamilton .

Connections

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Textual Production Charlotte Despard
CD published a pamphlet entitled Woman in the New Era, a 51-page publication with an appreciation by Christopher St John .
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Textual Production Clotilde Graves
Many of CG 's sixteen plays (often but not all light comedy), have remained unpublished, though produced on stage in London and New York. The earliest of these, the blank-verse tragedy Nitocris, was...
Textual Production Stevie Smith
SS 's list of requisites for a critic or reviewer goes like this: Attention, impartiality, and no regard for age or sex.
Smith, Stevie. Me Again. Editors Barbera, Jack and William McBrien, Vintage.
173
In April 1941 she was reviewing for John O'London's, Country Life...
Textual Production Edith Craig
EC , with Christopher St John , contributed biographical chapters, a preface, and notes to a new edition of Ellen Terry 's Memoirs.
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Terry, Ellen. “Preface; Biographical Chapters”. Ellen Terry’s Memoirs, edited by Edith Craig and Christopher St John, Benjamin Blom, pp. v - xi; 279.
iii, 362
Textual Features Cicely Hamilton
The pageant required more than fifty actresses, only three of whom had speaking parts, to portray famous women from history (not all of them remembered today). In the initial, Scala production, the only speaking role...
Textual Features Mary Agnes Hamilton
Bondfield was already well known as activist in both industrial and feminist causes, and a leader of the Independent Labour Party .
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape.
107
She was to become Britain's first woman cabinet minister five years after...
Textual Features Hrotsvit of Gandersheim
HG maintained that her great influence in drama was the Latin playwright Terence , though she diverges from him to ignore the unity of place which was dear to him and other classical dramatists, and...
Textual Features Hrotsvit of Gandersheim
Christopher St John observes that her style is colloquial, but also so spare and condensed that it is difficult to render into a language other than Latin. She combines medieval habits of latinity with using...
Residence Edith Craig
Ellen Terry sent her daughter EC , with Christopher St John , to bid on a countryside property, Smallhythe Place, in Smallhythe, Kent, for the three of them to share as a summer home.
Holledge, Julie. Innocent Flowers: Women in the Edwardian Theatre. Virago.
118
National Trust Handbook for Members and Visitors: March 1997 to March 1998. National Trust.
222
Reception Ethel Smyth
ES was famous or notorious in her day. According to Constance Lytton , E. F. Benson painted her portrait as Edith Staines in his novel Dodo. A detail of the day, 1893, whose title...
Reception Hrotsvit of Gandersheim
Cardinal Gasquet , introducing the first English translation of Hrotsvit's plays, hedged his critical bets. His opening words were: Whatever may be thought of the precise merits of these six short dramas . ....
Publishing Hrotsvit of Gandersheim
The only copy listed by OCLC WorldCat is now at Yale .
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The frontispiece shows Hrotsvit, kneeling in her nun's robes, presenting a handsomely-bound copy of her own works to the Emperor Otho (or Otto) II
Publishing Hrotsvit of Gandersheim
If regarded as seven rather than six,
St John, Christopher et al. “The Plays of Roswitha”. The Plays of Roswitha, translated by. Christopher St John, Benjamin Blom, p. xiv - xxiv.
xiv
HG's plays are Gallicanus I, Gallicanus II, Dulcitius, Callimachus, Abraham, Paphnutius, and Sapientia. After Christopher St John 's ground-breaking translation...
politics Edith Craig
EC and Christopher St John worked with Charlotte Despard 's new Women's Freedom League .
Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell.
83
politics Edith Craig
EC 's interest in suffrage is often traced to 1905, when her lifelong partner Christopher St John became actively engaged in the movement; however, Craig was exposed to suffrage politics at a much earlier age...

Timeline

June 1908: The Women Writers' Suffrage League was established...

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June 1908

1 October 1910: The Times newspaper launched a Woman's S...

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1 October 1910

The Timesnewspaper launched a Woman's Supplement.

14 May 1920: Time and Tide began publication, offering...

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14 May 1920

Time and Tide began publication, offering a feminist approach to literature, politics, and the arts: Naomi Mitchison called it the first avowedly feminist literary journal with any class, in some ways ahead of its time.
Mitchison, Naomi. You May Well Ask: A Memoir 1920-1940. Gollancz.
168

1925: Christine Murrell and Letitia Fairfield,...

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1925

Christine Murrell and Letitia Fairfield , in association with the Medical Women's Federation , set out to explode some damaging myths by launching a survey on menstrual experience among girls.

Texts

St John, Christopher. “Biographical Note”. Edy: Recollections of Edith Craig, edited by Eleanor Adlard, 1stst ed, Frederick Muller, 1949.
St John, Christopher. Edy: Recollections of Edith Craig. Editor Adlard, Eleanor, Frederick Muller, 1949.
St John, Christopher. Ellen Terry. John Lane, 1907.
St John, Christopher. Ethel Smyth. Longmans, Green, 1959.
Hamilton, Cicely, and Christopher St John. How the Vote Was Won. Woman’s Press, 1909.
Hamilton, Cicely, and Christopher St John. How the Vote Was Won. Dramatic Publishing Company, 1910.
St John, Christopher. Hungerheart. Methuen, 1915.
Gasquet, Francis Aidan et al. “Introduction”. The Plays of Roswitha, translated by. Christopher St John, Benjamin Blom, 1966, p. vii - xiii.
St John, Christopher. “Music of the Week”. Time and Tide, Vol.
1
, No. 1, p. 22.
Terry, Ellen. “Preface; Biographical Chapters”. Ellen Terry’s Memoirs, edited by Edith Craig and Christopher St John, Benjamin Blom, 1969, pp. v - xi; 279.
St John, Christopher, and Charles Thursby. The Coronation. International Suffrage Shop, 1911.
St John, Christopher. The Crimson Weed. Duckworth, 1900.
St John, Christopher. The First Actress. Utopia Press, 1909.
Heijermans, Herman. The Good Hope. Translators St John, Christopher and Jacob Thomas Grein, Hendersons, 1921.
Hrotsvit of Gandersheim, and Francis Aidan Gasquet. The Plays of Roswitha. Translator St John, Christopher, Chatto and Windus, 1923.
Hrotsvit of Gandersheim, and Francis Aidan Gasquet. The Plays of Roswitha. Translator St John, Christopher, Benjamin Blom, 1966, p. xxvi - xxxv; 158 pp.
St John, Christopher et al. “The Plays of Roswitha”. The Plays of Roswitha, translated by. Christopher St John, Benjamin Blom, 1966, p. xiv - xxiv.
Hamilton, Cicely, and Christopher St John. The Pot and the Kettle. 1909.
Heijermans, Herman. The Rising Sun. Translators St John, Christopher and M. V. Salvage, Labour Publishing Company, 1925.
Evreinov, Nikolai Nikolaevich. The Theatre of the Soul. Translators St John, Christopher and Marie Potapenko, Hendersons, 1915.
Despard, Charlotte, and Christopher St John. Woman in the New Era. The Suffrage Shop, 1910.