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Textual Production | Githa Sowerby | It had gone into rehearsal shortly before the end of 1911. Riley, Patricia. Looking for Githa. New Writing North. 46 |
Textual Production | Inez Bensusan | It had another performance at the Laurels
in Putney on 14 July 1911. Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press. 508 |
Textual Production | Christopher St John | It was part of a triple bill with Cicely Hamilton
's Jack and Jill and a Friend and Margaret Wynne Nevinson
's In the Workhouse. Another performance, again directed by Edith Craig, was staged... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Baker | The 1930 Players
were a group organized by Inez Bensusan
, an Australian-born actress and playwright who had been instrumental in forming the Actresses' Franchise League
. Penelope Forgives was never published, but a typescript... |
Reception | Henrik Ibsen | Like Nora, Hedda Gabler became a feminist icon. At the Coronation Suffrage Pageant, the spectacular suffrage event of 17 June 1911, the contingent from the Actresses' Franchise League
was led by an actress on horseback... |
Reception | George Paston | During the war this play became popular with British troops through the auspices of Woman's Theatre Camp Entertainments
, an organization formed by Inez Bensusan
after the demise of Actresses' Franchise League
. Hirshfield, Claire. “The Woman’s Theatre in England: 1913-1918”. Theatre History Studies, Vol. 15 , pp. 123-37. 131 |
Publishing | Evelyn Glover | The production was part of the Coronation Week festivities: earlier that week, on 17 June, many women's suffrage societies joined forces for an enormous Women's Coronation Procession. “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. (19 June 1911): 34 |
Publishing | Evelyn Glover | The play's vivid characters and snappy dialogue, alongside its minimal staging requirements, made it one of the most popular plays in the AFL's suffrage repertoire. Holledge, Julie. Innocent Flowers: Women in the Edwardian Theatre. Virago. 88 |
Author summary | Inez Bensusan | Inez Bensusan was an Australian-born actress who played a prominent role in the Actresses' Franchise League
in London. Although she wrote only three one-act plays herself, as head of the AFL Play Department she... |
politics | Christopher St John | She was arrested in 1909 for setting a pillar box on fire. She worked for the Women's Social and Political Union
, the Writers' Franchise League
(which she helped found), the Catholic Women's Suffrage Society |
politics | Edith Craig | EC
became a member of the newly formed Actresses' Franchise League
. Stowell, Sheila. A Stage of Their Own. University of Michigan Press. 41 |
politics | Ella Wheeler Wilcox | EWW
set out with conservative views on the Woman Question, though her early experience on a western farm meant that she took it for granted that women would be active and self-reliant. Her gender... |
politics | Kate Parry Frye | She found the occasion amusing and exhilarating; she rushed around and flirted with men; but she continued her account: But I am in earnest. I really do feel a great belief in the need of... |
politics | Cicely Hamilton | CH
was an active member of several suffrage organizations, always aligning herself with the non-militant suffragists. She first belonged to the Women's Social and Political Union
, but in 1907 she left to join the... |
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
. |