Actresses' Franchise League

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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 .
Performance of text Cicely Hamilton
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 ,...
politics Madeleine Lucette Ryley
Towards the end of her career, MLR became involved with the Actresses' Franchise League ,
Engle, Sherry D. New Women Dramatists in America, 1890-1920. Palgrave MacMilan, 2007.
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which based itself on a bond of union between all women in the Theatrical profession who are in sympathy...
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...
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, 1992.
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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 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 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
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...
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
Miss Appleyard's Awakening...
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, 1981.
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That year, the Connoisseurs theatre group mounted a production...
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 .
qtd. in
Hirshfield, Claire. “The Woman’s Theatre in England: 1913-1918”. Theatre History Studies, Vol.
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, June 1995, pp. 123-37.
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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...
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, 1973.
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The Actresses' Franchise League published the play in 1912. The Apple was the only one of IB 's plays to reach...
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...

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