Clemence Dane
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Standard Name: Dane, Clemence
Birth Name: Winifred Ashton
Pseudonym: Clemence Dane
Pseudonym: Diana Portis
CD
wrote, during the earlier twentieth century, over thirty plays for the stage, radio, and screen, in addition to her journalism and other non-fiction, and fourteen fictional works ranging from girls' school novels to detective fiction. Her work frequently addressed political issues of the day.
Connections
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death | Christopher Marlowe | Standard accounts of his death used to say that it was a brawl, largely caused by himself. But accident seems unlikely. He had recently been brought in for questioning by the Privy Council
, but... |
Education | Elizabeth Jane Howard | In autumn 1940 EJH
joined a student repertory company at Bideford in Devon, run by Eileen Thorndike
(sister of Sybil). The high point for EJH
was playing the lead in Clemence Dane
's play... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Catherine Carswell | Catherine Jackson (later CC
) sued for annulment and won, making legal history since insanity (of the husband) was not yet grounds for divorce. Thirteen years later Clemence Dane
scored a great popular success with... |
Friends, Associates | Violet Trefusis | One of VT
's loyal friends at this troubled time was author Clemence Dane
, who had sent her birthday greetings that June. Jullian, Philippe, John Nova Phillips, Violet Trefusis, and Vita Sackville-West. Violet Trefusis: Life and Letters. Hamish Hamilton, 1976. 57 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Agnes Hamilton | MAH
's memoirs give detailed and affectionate pen-portraits of innumerable friends, made both at home and in many of the other countries she travelled or worked in. Many of her English friends are known names... |
Literary responses | Susanna Centlivre | From this plot Frances Burney
borrowed the four guardians of her heroine in Cecilia. Walter Scott
thought the plot was extravagant enough (when the play was a hundred and ten years old) yet that... |
Literary responses | Hannah More | In the early twentieth century More's influence on the great Victorians was not seen as an asset. In 1964 Clemence Dane
felt it quite appropriate to celebrate More as a personage while admitting to not... |
Literary responses | Jean Rhys | Her most successful book so far, Voyage in the Dark was well received by critics and general public alike. Writer Clemence Dane
praised its simplicity, its orginality, and its power to express the emotions and... |
Occupation | Edith Craig | In addition to a memorial service and speeches, these annual tributes usually included scenes from Shakespeare
performed by well-known actors such as John Gielgud
and Sybil Thorndike
. Playwright Clemence Dane
gave a memorial speech... |
Performance of text | Dorothy L. Sayers | DLS
organised an experimental radio mystery play, The Scoop, by herself and Detection Club
members E. C. Bentley
, Anthony Berkeley
, Freeman Wills Crofts
, and Clemence Dane
. It was broadcast serially on the BBC
. Sayers, Dorothy L., E. C. Bentley, Anthony Berkeley, Agatha Christie, Freeman Wills Crofts, and Clemence Dane. “The Scoop: Parts I-XII”. The Listener. |
politics | Dora Russell | Other speakers included Vera Brittain
, Clemence Dane
, Megan Lloyd George
, and Storm Jameson
(all Six Point Vice-Presidents). The conference also involved the Married Women's Association
and the National Union of Women Teachers |
Publishing | Catharine Amy Dawson Scott | In 1923 she wrote a series of articles for Strand Magazine, entitled As I know them—Some Writers of Today, describing, among others, Clemence Dane
and H. G. Wells
. Watts, Marjorie, and Frances King. Mrs. Sappho. Duckworth, 1987. 129 |
Reception | Vita Sackville-West | Woolf reported reading the novel all in a gulp with pleasure in bed; very well done I think. Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne TrautmannEditors , Hogarth Press, 1980. 5: 214 |
Textual Features | Pat Barker | The story begins with the ambitions and emotional entanglements of a small group of Slade School of Art
students (two men, Paul Tarrant and the precocious success Kit Neville, and one strikingly talented woman, Elinor... |
Textual Features | Rebecca West | Sketches of writers, artists, politicians, and public figures in the collection include Clemence Dane
, Joseph Conrad
, Lloyd George
, and Winston Churchill
. Hutchinson, G. Evelyn. A Preliminary List of the Writings of Rebecca West, 1912-1951. Yale University Library, 1957. 4 |
Timeline
By late 1931
Twelve certain members of the Detection Club (including Agatha Christie
, Dorothy L. Sayers
, G. K. Chesterton
, Clemence Dane
, G. D. H. Cole
and Margaret Cole
) published a collaborative detectivenovel called...
20 February 1946
The Royal Opera House
, Covent Garden, London, had its grand reopening after wartime closure. Margot Fonteyn
performed with the Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet
in The Sleeping Beauty.