Actresses' Franchise League

Little information is available about IB 's early life in Australia, before she emigrated to England and became active in the women's suffrage movement and the Actresses' Franchise League . Her family was part...

IB became manager of the Play Department of the Actresses' Franchise League . In this position she mobilised writers to contribute plays to the suffrage cause.

Woman's Theatre Week, organised by IB under the auspices of the Actresses' Franchise League , was launched at the Coronet Theatre in London.

The Actresses' Franchise League launched the Woman's Theatre War Relief Matinees , a series of benefit performances organised by IB , Janette Steer , and others to raise funds for a variety of wartime charities.

The Women's Emergency Corps was founded by a group of women, including actresses Eva and Decima Moore and (according to Jacob) Gertrude Kingston . Jacob's fellow volunteers there included Stella Benson and Viola Meynell ....

This was her most challenging project as head of the Play Department of the Actresses' Franchise League . She hoped a West End theatre would pick up the production, but none did.

This organisation, still closely associated with the Actresses' Franchise League , was responsible for staging at least 654 performances during the First World War. Musical and variety shows were the most popular events, but IB

After the war, the Actresses' Franchise League lost its momentum and many of its members turned their attention to the British Drama League and the founding of a National Theatre.

At the beginning of the Second World War, IB attempted to coordinate an operation similar to the one she organised with the Actresses' Franchise League during the First World War providing entertainment for soldiers, but...

The Play Department of the Actresses' Franchise League , headed by IB , held its first series of performances at a Votes for Women Exhibition at the Prince's Skating Rink in Knightsbridge.

The Play Department of the Actresses' Franchise League , directed by IB , helped to raise suffrage funds with matinees of short plays and sketches at the Kingsway , Royalty and Lyceum theatres in London.

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 .

An earlier version involving tableaux had been given at Caxton Hall in February this year. The Scala production was sponsored by the Actresses' Franchise League . The cast included Ellen Terry , Lillah McCarthy ,...

The play was performed alongside Cicely Hamilton 's Pageant of Great Women as part of a fundraising event organised by Inez Bensusan on behalf of the Actresses' Franchise League and the Women Writers' Suffrage League

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.