Evelyn Glover

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EG began her writing career by contributing several comic, polemical sketches to the suffrage cause. These one-act plays seek to demonstrate the relevance of the suffrage movement to working-class women. During the First World War one of her short plays, A Bit of Blighty, became popular entertainment for the troops. Her only full-length drama, Time to Wake Up, was produced in 1919. She also wrote pieces for a children's programme on BBC radio. EG probably wrote her memoirs (the attribution is not quite certain) in the unusual form of a desultory book mostly about photography and cats. EG 's A Chat with Mrs. Chicky has been recently and successfully revived.

Milestones

About 1874

An EG born this year at Crosby in Lancashire seems the most likely candidate for the identity of the future suffrage playwright.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

20 June 1911

The Actresses' Franchise League produced Mrs. Appleyard's Awakening, a one-act play by EG in which an Anti-Suffrage Society campaigner accidentally converts her canvassee to the suffrage cause.
EG uses both Miss Appleyard and Mrs. Appleyard to refer to the title character. The play seems to have been produced as Mrs. Appleyard's Awakening and published as Miss Appleyard's Awakening.
Holledge, Julie. Innocent Flowers: Women in the Edwardian Theatre. Virago.
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Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press.
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20 February 1912

EG 's spirited one-act suffrage play A Chat with Mrs. Chicky was performed at the Rehearsal Theatre in London, with Inez Bensusan in the title role.
Theatre historian Julie Holledge mentions an earlier performance, on 13 November 1911, at a Suffrage Fair held by the Women's Freedom League .
Holledge, Julie. Innocent Flowers: Women in the Edwardian Theatre. Virago.
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Spender, Dale. “Introduction to <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl="m">A Chat with Mrs. Chicky</span> and <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Miss Appleyard’s Awakening</span&gt”;. How the Vote Was Won: and Other Suffragette Plays, edited by Dale Spender and Carole Hayman, Methuen, p. 101.
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Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press.
671

1938

EG probably published Cats and My Camera, subtitled Some Mental and Photographic Reflections, dedicated to her friend and companion Kam. The text consists of anecdote and reminiscence, but gives little personal information away.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Glover, Evelyn. Cats and My Camera. M. Joseph.
prelims

Biography

An Obscure Life

About 1874

An EG born this year at Crosby in Lancashire seems the most likely candidate for the identity of the future suffrage playwright.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

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