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 She also wrote one unpublished play for children. Her unpublished papers—correspondence, prompt books, and playbills—document her significant contribution to feminist theatre history.
Black and white photograph of Edith Craig, shown from the shoulders up. Her head is leaning against one hand, her light hair is cut short, and she is wearing a black jacket with a white collar and cuffs, over a white shirt with ruffles at the front.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Christopher St John
CSJ and Edith Craig rented a flat together at 7 Smith Square, Westminster, in London; they lived together, there and elsewhere, until Craig's death in 1947.
Auerbach, Nina. Ellen Terry: Player in Her Time. W.W. Norton.
480
Holledge, Julie. Innocent Flowers: Women in the Edwardian Theatre. Virago.
115
Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell.
61-2
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...
Residence Christopher St John
CSJ and Edith Craig moved to Priest's House, Smallhythe Place, Tenterden, Kent, on the property of Craig's mother 's farm.
Auerbach, Nina. Ellen Terry: Player in Her Time. W.W. Norton.
480
Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell.
229
Family and Intimate relationships Christopher St John
Shortly before St John's death, she burned most of Craig 's papers. According to Ellen Terry's biographer, Nina Auerbach: Whether Christopher's bonfire was a response to Edy's expressed wish, or a gesture of murderous irony...
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
Textual Features Christopher St John
This thinly disguised autobiographical fiction (both roman à clef and bildungsroman) depicts a lesbian or invert relationship at a time when public attention to unorthodox sexual relationships (following such attention by sexologists), was on the...
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
Textual Production Christopher St John
The Theatre of the Soul's greatest innovations on the English stage lay in its representation of female desire through the character of a female dancer and in the use of innovative stage lighting techniques...
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
Performance of text Christopher St John
This had reached print bearing the date of 1911.
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After the play was banned from the public stage by the censor, a benefit performance was put on for the International Suffrage Shop . Kate Parry Frye
Family and Intimate relationships Christopher St John
CSJ 's and Edith Craig 's household expanded to include the painter Tony (Clare) Atwood ; the three lived together in Smallhythe Place and London for the rest of their lives.
Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell.
124, 181
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
Friends, Associates Christopher St John
CSJ , Edith Craig , and Tony Atwood spent much time in the company of Radclyffe Hall and Una Troubridge , who were staying temporarily in Kent while their house was being renovated.
Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell.
161
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

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