Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
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
,...
John, Angela V. Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life, 1862-1952. Routledge, 1995.
153
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...
Occupation
Maude Royden
In June 1921, they moved the Fellowship Services to the Guildhouse, Eccleston Square, where MR
continued to preach until she resigned in December 1936. She resigned because, she said, I have to choose; and...
Engle, Sherry D. New Women Dramatists in America, 1890-1920. Palgrave MacMilan, 2007.
90
which based itself on a bond of union between all women in the Theatrical profession who are in sympathy...
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...
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, 1973.
252
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...
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, 1912, x, 416 pp.
203, 206
But the driver who took the Armfields home at the end of the last day said:...
Performance of text
Ethel Smyth
ES
first performed her anthem The March of the Women (written for the WSPU
, with words by Cicely Hamilton
); she dedicated it to Emmeline Pankhurst
.
Marcus, Jane, editor. “Introduction / Appendix”. Suffrage and the Pankhursts, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1987, pp. 1 - 17, 306.
310
Sadie, Julie Anne, and Rhian Samuel, editors. The New Grove Dictionary of Women Composers. Macmillan, 1994.
430-1
Performance of text
Christopher St John
CSJ
and Cicely Hamilton
's How the Vote Was Won, the most successful of the Edwardian suffrage plays, was first performed at the Royalty Theatre
, London.
Hamilton, Cicely, and Christopher St John. How the Vote Was Won. 1st ed., Dramatic Publishing Company, 1910.
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.
698
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...
Occupation
Christopher St John
CSJ
, as well as writing and acting for the Pioneer Players
, sat on their committees and served as honorary secretary, 1915-20. Her stage roles for the Players included one in Edith Craig's production...
Timeline
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Texts
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.
