St John, Christopher. “Biographical Note”. Edy: Recollections of Edith Craig, edited by Eleanor Adlard, 1stst ed, Frederick Muller, 1949.
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Birth | Edith Craig | EC
was born in Gusterwoods Common, Hertfordshire, the elder of two children. This is the spelling used by Christopher St John
. Other sources say Gusterd Wood Common or Gusherd Wood Common. St John, Christopher. “Biographical Note”. Edy: Recollections of Edith Craig, edited by Eleanor Adlard, 1stst ed, Frederick Muller, 1949. 9 |
Cultural formation | Edith Craig | Since her mother's relationships with men tended to be brief, EC
grew up surrounded by women. From an early age she associated women with strength and courage, and would admonish her brother for his childhood... |
Cultural formation | Edith Craig | From the age of thirty until her death, EC
lived with writer Christopher St John
(Christabel Marshall). Though Craig was reluctant to discuss this or any other aspect of her life, St John identified their... |
death | Ethel Smyth | She appointed Christopher St John
as her literary executor. At the request of Christabel Pankhurst
, St John downplayed ES
's role in the suffrage movement when she wrote her biography. Mitchell, David J. The Fighting Pankhursts: A Study in Tenacity. MacMillan, 1967. 306 St John, Christopher. Ethel Smyth. Longmans, Green, 1959. xvii |
Family and Intimate relationships | Emma Marshall | Her youngest child, Christabel, who grew up to re-name herself Christopher St John
, circulated a fabricated story of her family and origins, and became well known as a suffragist playwright, biographer, and lesbian. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Vita Sackville-West | Matheson was succeeded in VSW
's life by Evelyn Irons
, editor of the Daily Mail Women's Page, and then by Christopher St John
, whose Barn Theatre, Smallhythe, was of professional interest. Vita... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Edith Craig | EC
and Christopher St John
took lodgings in Smith Square, Westminster, where they lived for six years. Melville, Joy. Ellen and Edy. Pandora, 1987. 175 Auerbach, Nina. Ellen Terry: Player in Her Time. W.W. Norton, 1987. 480 Holledge, Julie. Innocent Flowers: Women in the Edwardian Theatre. Virago, 1981. 115 Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell, 1998. 61-2 |
Friends, Associates | Edith Craig | In the early 1930s—when the persecution of lesbians in general and Radclyffe Hall
in particular was raging in the wake of The Well of Loneliness trial—EC
, Christopher St John
, and Clare Atwood |
Friends, Associates | George Bernard Shaw | He was an important figure in the lives and careers of almost innumerable women writers: a good friend of Annie Besant
, Sylvia Pankhurst
, Elizabeth Robins
, and Christopher St John
, a romantic... |
Friends, Associates | Radclyffe Hall | During the 1920s, RH
and Una Troubridge
were friends with a wide range of writers, actors, and artists, including Ida Wylie
, Romaine Brooks
, Natalie Barney
, Noël Coward
, Tallulah Bankhead
, and... |
Literary responses | Vita Sackville-West | There was a widespread feeling that VSW
had been too circumspect and scholarly. Virginia Woolf
told Vita that she found the book solid, strong, satisfactory Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne TrautmannEditors , Hogarth Press, 1980. 6: 49 |
Occupation | Edith Craig | Despite her successes with the Pioneer Players and the Little Theatre movement, EC
was often unable to find work in London, possibly because of her relationship with Christopher St John
, possibly (as St... |
Occupation | Inez Bensusan | These plays, written by amateur and professional writers, were made available for performance at public events in support of women's suffrage. Bensusan encouraged writers to produce plays dealing with a range of women's issues such... |
Occupation | Edith Craig | The Pioneer Players produced Christopher St John
's The First Actress and Cicely Hamilton
's Jack and Jill and a Friend at their first matinee. Both plays deal with the the artistic establishment's exclusion of... |
Performance of text | Vita Sackville-West | VSW
gave a reading of The Land at the Barn Theatre at Smallhythe, run by Edith Craig
and Christopher St John
. Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin, 1984. 251 |