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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 She also wrote one unpublished play for children. Her unpublished papers—correspondence, prompt books, and playbills—document her significant contribution to feminist theatre history.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
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Performance of text | Cicely Hamilton | Later that year it toured provincial suffrage societies for the Actresses' Franchise League
, under the direction of Edith Craig
. It eventually became a staple piece for Craig's Pioneer Players
. |
| Performance of text | Constance Holme | CH
's dialect play The Home of Vision (one of her only two dramatic pieces to be performed in London over the course of her career) was acted by Edith Craig
's Pioneer Players
. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |
| politics | Christopher St John | Sime Seruya
established the International Suffrage Shop
as a feminist publisher and bookseller; it operated out of CSJ
and Edith Craig
's home in Bedford Street. Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell. 87 |
| Publishing | Charlotte Despard | This was one of the earliest publications of the International Suffrage Shop
, established the same year by Sime Seruya
in the London home of St John and Edith Craig
. It had already appeared... |
| Reception | Cicely Hamilton | The play was both a critical success and enormously popular, though some trade papers attacked it as being propagandist. Whitelaw, Lis. The Life and Rebellious Times of Cicely Hamilton. Women’s Press. 88 |
| Residence | Christopher St John | After leaving 7 Smith Square, CSJ
and Edith Craig
moved to Adelphi Terrace House. Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell. 61-2 |
| Residence | Christopher St John | |
| Residence | Christopher St John | CSJ
and Edith Craig
rented a residence in London, a third-floor flat at 31 Bedford Street, Covent Garden; this flat became a refuge for suffragists just out of prison or wanted by police. Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell. 81 Holledge, Julie. Innocent Flowers: Women in the Edwardian Theatre. Virago. 121-2 Auerbach, Nina. Ellen Terry: Player in Her Time. W.W. Norton. 407 |
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