Edith Craig
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Standard Name: Craig, Edith
Birth Name: Ailsa Edith Geraldine Craig
Nickname: Edy
Self-constructed Name: Ailsa Craig
EC
was primarily a theatre practitioner, known chiefly for her Pioneer Players
, the women's theatre company she founded in 1911. Her literary output was scant. She published a handful of articles on stagecraft, and contributed to a revised edition of her mother Ellen Terry
's memoirs. She also wrote one unpublished play for children. Her unpublished papers—correspondence, prompt books, and playbills—document her significant contribution to feminist theatre history.
Connections
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Performance of text | Edith Lyttelton | Edith Craig
's Pioneer Players
mounted a production of Two Pierrots, EL
's adaptation of Rostand
's play Les deux Pierrots (which has been described as a curtain-raiser), at London's Little Theatre
. Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press. 797 Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
Performance of text | Vita Sackville-West | VSW
gave a reading of The Land at the Barn Theatre at Smallhythe, run by Edith Craig
and Christopher St John
. Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin. 251 |
Performance of text | Colette | She was revising the novel at Rozven in Brittany (near St Malo) in July 1919. Colette,. Lettres à Sa Fille, 1916-1953. Editor Jouvenel, Anne de, Gallimard. 29n1 OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Performance of text | Christopher St John | This had reached print bearing the date of 1911. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
Performance of text | Cicely Hamilton | The premiere of CH
's suffrage drama A Pageant of Great Women, with direction and some collaboration by Edith Craig
, was given at the Scala Theatre
in London. Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell. 220 Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell. 82-3 Cockin, Katharine. “Cicely Hamilton’s Warriors: dramatic reinventions of militancy in the British women’s suffrage movement”. Women’s History Review, Vol. 14 , No. 3/4, pp. 527-42. 529 |
Performance of text | Cicely Hamilton | CH
's performance piece known as The Anti-Suffrage Waxworks was taken on tour by Edith Craig
for the Actresses' Franchise League
. Demastes, William W., and Katherine E. Kelly, editors. British Playwrights, 1880-1956. Greenwood Press. 193 Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell. 100 |
Performance of text | Cicely Hamilton | Jack and Jill and a Friend, CH
's comic drama about the difficulties of being a woman writer, was performed by the Pioneer Players
at the Kingsway Theatre
in London, directed by Edith Craig
. Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell. 221 Whitelaw, Lis. The Life and Rebellious Times of Cicely Hamilton. Women’s Press. 124-5 |
Occupation | Christopher St John | After the death of Ellen Terry
, Edith Craig
and CSJ
turned the barn on their property at Smallhythe into a theatre
; the farm they renamed the Ellen Terry Memorial Museum
. Auerbach, Nina. Ellen Terry: Player in Her Time. W.W. Norton. 400, 453 |
Leisure and Society | Christopher St John | CSJ
and Edith Craig
hosted a reading of The Land performed by its author, Vita Sackville-West
. Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin. 251 |
Leisure and Society | Christopher St John | The Annual Ellen Terry Memorial Performance was held at the Barn Theatre
, Smallhythe: the three women commemorated were Ellen Terry
, Edith Craig
, and Virginia Woolf
. Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell. 176 |
Leisure and Society | Cicely Hamilton | A striking photographic portrait of CH
by Lena Connell
, taken in 1912, is now in the National Portrait Gallery
. Williams, Val, and Susan Bright. How We Are: Photographing Britain. Tate Publishing. 78 |
Health | Christopher St John | After CSJ
learned of Martin Shaw
's marriage proposal to Edith Craig
, she attempted suicide, taking an overdose of cocaine. Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell. 62-3 Holledge, Julie. Innocent Flowers: Women in the Edwardian Theatre. Virago. 116 |
Friends, Associates | Christopher St John | Christabel Marshall (later CSJ
) met the actress Ellen Terry
and her daughter Edith Craig
; they soon became intimate friends. Auerbach, Nina. Ellen Terry: Player in Her Time. W.W. Norton. 480 |
Friends, Associates | Christopher St John | In 1933 Vita Sackville-West
formally introduced CSJ
and Edith Craig
to Virginia Woolf
.Woolf was not as fascinated by St John as she was by Craig and Terry, and saw her as a burden on... |
Friends, Associates | Radclyffe Hall | During the 1920s, RH
and Una Troubridge
were friends with a wide range of writers, actors, and artists, including Ida Wylie
, Romaine Brooks
, Natalie Barney
, Noël Coward
, Tallulah Bankhead
, and... |
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