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
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...
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. Dramatic Publishing Company.
3
Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell.
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Performance of text Christopher St John
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.
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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...
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...
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, pp. 1 - 17, 306.
310
Sadie, Julie Anne, and Rhian Samuel, editors. The New Grove Dictionary of Women Composers. Macmillan.
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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.
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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 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...
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...
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.
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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...
Performance of text George Paston
The play was performed alongside Cicely Hamilton 's Pageant of Great Women as part of a fundraising event organised by Inez Bensusan on behalf of the Actresses' Franchise League and the Women Writers' Suffrage League

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.
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, 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.