Weiss, Rudolf. “Versions of Emancipation: The Dramatic World of Elizabeth Baker”. Sprachkunst, Vol.
20
, No. 2, pp. 305-16. 315
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
---|---|---|
Performance of text | Elizabeth Baker | EB
's one-act comedy Edith was performed at a fundraising event for the Women Writers' Suffrage League
at the Prince's Theatre
. Weiss, Rudolf. “Versions of Emancipation: The Dramatic World of Elizabeth Baker”. Sprachkunst, Vol. 20 , No. 2, pp. 305-16. 315 Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press. 490 Stowell, Sheila. A Stage of Their Own. University of Michigan Press. 102 |
politics | Elizabeth Baker | EB
's plays reflect her commitment to socialist and feminist ideas. Her involvement in the suffrage movement included contributing a one-act play, Edith, to a Women Writers' Suffrage League
fundraiser and subscribing to the... |
politics | Stella Benson | SB
had been a moderate until the death of the Derby Martyr, Emily Wilding Davison
, in 1913. After this she became more militant. When she moved to London in May 1914, she called... |
politics | Stella Benson | After the First World War broke out in August 1914, SB
sided with Flora Annie Steel
in a Women Writers' Suffrage League
dispute over supporting the war. Benson and Steel believed in supporting the war... |
politics | Sarah Grand | In an interview in 1896, SG
made clear her belief in the need for female suffrage: We shall do no good until we get the Franchise, for however well-intentioned men may be, they cannot understand... |
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 | Beatrice Harraden | BH
was identified in an interview of 1897 as a pronounced Suffragist. Crawford, Elizabeth. The Women’s Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928. Routledge. 276 |
politics | Violet Hunt | VH
shared a self-described passion for women's suffrage Hunt, Violet. I Have This to Say. Boni and Liveright. 51 |
politics | Marie Belloc Lowndes | MBL
was an active member of the Women Writers' Suffrage League
: the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography reports that she served as its President. She wrote later that most members of the Thirty Club |
Textual Production | Sarah Macnaughtan | SM
gave a speech at a reception for the Women Writers' Suffrage League
. The complete text is not known, but important parts of the speech were highlighted in an article by Evelyn Isitt
which... |
politics | George Paston | GP
belonged to the Women Writers' Suffrage League
and the London Women's Suffrage Society
. Kaplan, Joel H., and Sheila Stowell. Theatre and Fashion: Oscar Wilde to the Suffragettes. Cambridge University Press. 163 |
Performance of text | George Paston | 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 |
politics | Elizabeth Robins | ER
became president of the Women Writers' Suffrage League
, founded this year by Cicely Hamilton
and Bessie Hatton
. John, Angela V. Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life, 1862-1952. Routledge. 153 |
politics | Elizabeth Robins | Aligning herself with the non-militant Pethick-LawrencesFrederick William Pethick-Lawrence
, ER
resigned from the Women's Social and Political Union
and the Women Writers' Suffrage League
. John, Angela V. Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life, 1862-1952. Routledge. 167-71 |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Robins | Betweem 1908 and 1910 ER
gave a series of speeches to the Women Writers' Suffrage League
(all later collected in Way Stations). Liggins, Emma. “The ’Sordid Story’ of an Unwanted Child: Militancy, Motherhood, and Abortion in Elizabeth Robins’s Votes for Women and Way Stations”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 25 , No. 3, pp. 347-61. 348-9 |