Cicely Hamilton

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Standard Name: Hamilton, Cicely
Birth Name: Cicely Mary Hammill
Pseudonym: Cicely Hamilton
CH 's early twentieth-century plays, novels, feminist prose, and travel writing are firmly rooted in her politics, and demonstrate her skill as political satirist. As a propagandist her method is often to take the views of the other side and render them ridiculous. Her earlier writings reflect her commitment to women's suffrage and economic independence, while her later work focuses primarily on war.
Black and white photograph of Cicely Hamilton, shown from the shoulders up. She is wearing a shimmery beaded jacket, and her hair is jaw-length and wavy.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Judith Kazantzis
This remarkable anthology brings to a wider audience poems by many otherwise unknown writers, as well as by, for instance, Vera Brittain , Edith Sitwell , Nancy Cunard , Cicely Hamilton , Rose Macaulay ,...
Textual Production Christopher St John
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...
Textual Production Mona Caird
Scholar Ann Heilmann points out that this article significantly predated a series of commentaries of similar cast by Charlotte Perkins Gilman , Cicely Hamilton , Olive Schreiner , and Elizabeth Robins , which emerged over...
Reception Elizabeth Robins
On ER 's request, Cicely Hamilton adapted the novel as a play, but it was never performed. The Lord Chamberlain refused to license it on the grounds that it ought not be allowed to run...
Reception Catharine Amy Dawson Scott
This novel received excellent reviews and in early 1920 reached the short-list of three English submissions for the Prix Femina Vie Heureuse, which however went in the end to Cicely Hamilton . In The Observer...
Reception Constance Smedley
Though Liberals welcomed the pageant, it was widely condemned by the County or local landowners as socialistic.
Smedley, Constance, and Maxwell Armfield. Crusaders. Chatto & Windus.
203, 206
But the driver who took the Armfields home at the end of the last day said:...
Publishing May Sinclair
MS published A Defence of Men in The English Review, in response to Cicely Hamilton 's Man published in the April issue of the same periodical.
Boll, Theophilus E. M. Miss May Sinclair: Novelist: A Biographical and Critical Introduction. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
252
Author summary 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...
politics Sarah Grand
In an interview in 1896, SG made clear her belief in the need for female suffrage: We shall do no good until we get the Franchise, for however well-intentioned men may be, they cannot understand...
politics Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda
Together with Rebecca West , Cicely Hamilton , and Elizabeth Robins , MHVR founded the Six Point Group , whose motto was Equality First.
Eoff, Shirley. Viscountess Rhondda: Equalitarian Feminist. Ohio State University Press.
74
Eoff, Shirley. Viscountess Rhondda: Equalitarian Feminist. Ohio State University Press.
69
Pugh, Martin. Women and the Women’s Movement in Britain 1914 - 1959. Macmillan Education.
49
politics Virginia Woolf
The event was organized in part by Pippa Strachey ; other guests included Vanessa Bell , Cicely Hamilton , Laura Knight , Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson , and T. S. Eliot . Here Woolf...
politics Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda
That autumn, against the wishes of both her father and her husband, she joined the WSPU , organising a local branch at Newport, South Wales. She paid her one-shilling annual membership fee and pledged...
politics Elizabeth Robins
ER became president of the Women Writers' Suffrage League , founded this year by Cicely Hamilton and Bessie Hatton .
John, Angela V. Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life, 1862-1952. Routledge.
153
politics May Sinclair
It was an act of great courage for MS to make herself so conspicuous. Cicely Hamilton and Catherine Gasquoine Hartley led the procession. Members of the WWSL each carried a goose quill and a bannerette...
politics Edith Craig
In April and October 1909 EC directed the enormously successful suffrage play How the Vote Was Won co-authored by Cicely Hamilton and Christopher St John . Later that year, she directed the premier production of...

Timeline

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

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June 1908

The Women Writers' Suffrage League was established by Cicely Hamilton and Bessie Hatton .

10 December 1908: The inaugural meeting of the Actresses' Franchise...

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10 December 1908

The inaugural meeting of the Actresses' Franchise League was held at the Criterion Restaurant in London.

From November 1914: The Actresses' Franchise League, led by Lena...

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From November 1914

The Actresses' Franchise League , led by Lena Ashwell , organised entertainment for troops, first at English army bases and later in France; these eventually became known as Concerts at the Front.

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.
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Texts

Hamilton, Cicely. A Pageant of Great Women. Suffrage Shop, 1910.
Hamilton, Cicely. Diana of Dobson’s. Samuel French, 1925.
Hamilton, Cicely. “Diana of Dobson’s”. New Woman Plays, edited by Linda Fitzsimmons and Viv Gardner, Methuen, 1991, pp. 27-77.
Hamilton, Cicely. Full Stop. J. M. Dent and Sons, 1931.
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.
Hamilton, Cicely. Jack and Jill and a Friend. Samuel French, 1911.
Hamilton, Cicely. Just to Get Married. Samuel French, 1914.
Hamilton, Cicely. Lament for Democracy. J. M. Dent and Sons, 1940.
Hamilton, Cicely. Life Errant. J. M. Dent and Sons, 1935.
Hamilton, Cicely. “Man”. The English Review, Vol.
11
, pp. 115-25.
Hamilton, Cicely. Marriage as a Trade. Chapman and Hall, 1909.
Hamilton, Cicely. Modern France, as Seen by an Englishwoman. J. M. Dent and Sons, 1933.
Hamilton, Cicely. Modern Sweden, as Seen by an Englishwoman. J. M. Dent and Sons, 1939.
Hamilton, Cicely. Senlis. W. Collins, 1917.
Hamilton, Cicely. The Child in Flanders. Samuel French, 1922.
Hamilton, Cicely. The Englishwoman. Longmans, Green, 1940.
Hamilton, Cicely. The Old Adam. B. Blackwell, 1926.
Hamilton, Cicely, and Lilian Baylis. The Old Vic. Jonathan Cape, 1926.
Hamilton, Cicely, and Christopher St John. The Pot and the Kettle. 1909.
Hamilton, Cicely. Theodore Savage. Leonard Parsons, 1922.
Hamilton, Cicely. William, An Englishman. Skeffington and Son, 1919.