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 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.
15
Murray, David Leslie. “The Man Within”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 1429, p. 492.
492
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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.
11, 176
Theatre historian Julie Holledge has suggested that Craig was the model for Virginia Woolf
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...
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...
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...

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Texts

Dane, Clemence. Wild Decembers. William Heinemann, 1932.
Dane, Clemence. Will Shakespeare. William Heinemann, 1921.