Christopher St John

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Writing from the beginning of the twentieth century, CSJ produced novels, biography, and love-journals, as well as her work for the stage, for which she wrote translations, adaptations, and original plays. She is best remembered for the suffrage play How the Vote Was Won, co-written with Cicely Hamilton .

Milestones

24 October 1871
Christabel Gertrude Marshall (later CSJ ) was born in Exeter, at 38 High Street, the youngest of nine children.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
1900
CSJ published her first novel, The Crimson Weed, which takes its title from a transformation of the traditional symbol of the red rose.
Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell, 1998.
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13 April 1909
CSJ and Cicely Hamilton 's How the Vote Was Won, the most successful of the Edwardian suffrage plays, was first performed at the Royalty Theatre , London.
Hamilton, Cicely, and Christopher St John. How the Vote Was Won. Dramatic Publishing Company, 1910.
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Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell, 1998.
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20 October 1960
CSJ died from pneumonia connected with heart disease at Tenterden in Kent; she was in her late eighties.
Who Was Who in the Theatre: 1912-1976. Gale Research, 1978.
Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin, 1984.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

Biography

The St John stood for St John the Baptist , for whom she had a special devotion.
Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin, 1984.
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Taking the allusion a step further, she said that she performed the role of announcing to the world the coming of Ellen Terry .
Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin, 1984.
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Auerbach, Nina. Ellen Terry: Player in Her Time. W.W. Norton, 1987.
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Birth and Background

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