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.
Black and white photograph of Clemence Dane, shown from the shoulders up, and posed with her body on an angle and her face turned to face the camera directly. She is wearing a black shirt with a long, dark, beaded necklace, and she has short, dark hair.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
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...
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...
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...
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...
Textual Production Edith Craig
Edith Craig appears in Clemence Dane 's play Eighty in the Shade as the dominant but dependent Blanche Carroll.
Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell.
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Theatre historian Julie Holledge has suggested that Craig was the model for Virginia Woolf
Textual Production Graham Greene
GG published his first novel, The Man Within. Clemence Dane , who read the manuscript for Heinemann , reported that here was a born writer.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Murray, David Leslie. “The Man Within”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 1429, p. 492.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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...
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...
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...
Textual Features Ngaio Marsh
This novel is set during the opening production at The Dolphin, a recently derelict and now lovingly restored Victorian theatre beside the Thames in London. The central character, Peregrine or Perry Jay, is a...
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...
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
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. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press.
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It was a Book Society Choice, recommended by Clemence Dane and Hugh Walpole , and...
Textual Production Dorothy L. Sayers
DLS was an enthusiastic and longstanding member of the Detection Club , a group of detective novelists who met regularly to discuss their craft. DLS helped to establish the club, and served as its President...

Timeline

By late 1931: Twelve certain members of the Detection Club...

Women writers item

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,...

Building item

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.

Texts

Dane, Clemence. A Bill of Divorcement. Samuel French, 1921.
Dane, Clemence, and Richard Addinsell. Adam’s Opera. William Heinemann, 1928.
Dane, Clemence, and Richard Addinsell. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. Samuel French, 1948.
Dane, Clemence et al. Anna Karenina. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, 1935.
Dane, Clemence. Broome Stages. William Heinemann, 1931.
Dane, Clemence. Collected Plays. William Heinemann, 1961.
Dane, Clemence, and Richard Addinsell. Come of Age. Doubleday, Doran, 1934.
Dane, Clemence. Eighty in the Shade. Samuel French, 1959.
Dane, Clemence. Fate Cries Out: Nine Tales. Doubleday, Doran, 1935.
Dane, Clemence. First the Blade. William Heinemann, 1918.
Dane, Clemence. Granite. Samuel French, 1926.
Dane, Clemence. He Brings Great News. William Heinemann, 1944.
Dane, Clemence. Herod and Mariamne. Doubleday, Doran, 1938.
Dane, Clemence et al. L’Aiglon. Doubleday, Doran, 1934.
Dane, Clemence. Legend. William Heinemann, 1919.
Dane, Clemence. London Has a Garden. Michael Joseph, 1964.
Dane, Clemence. Regiment of Women. William Heinemann, 1917.
Dane, Clemence. The Moon is Feminine. William Heinemann, 1938.
Dane, Clemence. The Nelson Touch: An Anthology of Lord Nelson’s Letters. Heinemann, 1942.
Dane, Clemence. The Saviours. William Heinemann, 1942.
Sayers, Dorothy L. et al. “The Scoop: Parts I-XII”. The Listener, Vol.
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Dane, Clemence. The Shelter Book. Longman’s, Green, 1940.
Dane, Clemence. The Way Things Happen. William Heinemann, 1923.
Dane, Clemence. The Women’s Side. Herbert Jenkins, 1926.
Dane, Clemence. Tradition and Hugh Walpole. Doubleday, Doran, 1929.