Christopher St John

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Standard Name: St John, Christopher
Birth Name: Christabel Marshall
Pseudonym: Christopher St John
Writing from the beginning of the twentieth century, CSJ produced novels, biography, and love-journals, as well as her work for the stage, for which she wrote translations, adaptations, and original plays. She is best remembered for the suffrage play How the Vote Was Won, co-written with Cicely Hamilton .

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Performance of text Cicely Hamilton
CH 's one-act suffrage play, How the Vote Was Won, co-written with Christopher St John , opened at the Royalty Theatre .
Demastes, William W., and Katherine E. Kelly, editors. British Playwrights, 1880-1956. Greenwood Press, 1996.
191
Performance of text Cicely Hamilton
The Pot and the Kettle by CH and Christopher St John , a one-act play satirising anti-suffragists, was first performed—at the same matinée as A Pageant of Great Women.
Whitelaw, Lis. The Life and Rebellious Times of Cicely Hamilton. Women’s Press, 1990.
89
Performance of text Clemence Dane
CD 's play Ellen Terry in the Theatre was performed at the Barn Theatre on Christopher St John 's property at Smallhythe, Kent, for the Ellen Terry anniversary celebration.
Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell, 1998.
177
Performance of text Colette
She was revising the novel at Rozven in Brittany (near St Malo) in July 1919.
Colette,. Lettres à Sa Fille, 1916-1953. Editor Jouvenel, Anne de, Gallimard, 2003.
29n1
A pocket edition appeared from a different publisher the same year.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
On 26 October 1930 the Stage Society in...
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
Performance of text 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.
88
That year, the Connoisseurs theatre group mounted a production...
politics Edith Craig
EC 's interest in suffrage is often traced to 1905, when her lifelong partner Christopher St John became actively engaged in the movement; however, Craig was exposed to suffrage politics at a much earlier age...
politics Edith Craig
In April and October 1909 EC directed the enormously successful suffrage play How the Vote Was Won co-authored by Cicely Hamilton and Christopher St John . Later that year, she directed the premier production of...
politics Edith Craig
EC and Christopher St John worked with Charlotte Despard 's new Women's Freedom League .
Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell, 1998.
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Publishing Hrotsvit of Gandersheim
The only copy listed by OCLC WorldCat is now at Yale .
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
The frontispiece shows Hrotsvit, kneeling in her nun's robes, presenting a handsomely-bound copy of her own works to the Emperor Otho (or Otto) II
Publishing Hrotsvit of Gandersheim
If regarded as seven rather than six,
St John, Christopher et al. “The Plays of Roswitha”. The Plays of Roswitha, translated by. Christopher St John, Benjamin Blom, 1966, p. xiv - xxiv.
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HG's plays are Gallicanus I, Gallicanus II, Dulcitius, Callimachus, Abraham, Paphnutius, and Sapientia. After Christopher St John 's ground-breaking translation...
Reception Ethel Smyth
ES was famous or notorious in her day. According to Constance Lytton , E. F. Benson painted her portrait as Edith Staines in his novel Dodo. A detail of the day, 1893, whose title...
Reception Hrotsvit of Gandersheim
Cardinal Gasquet , introducing the first English translation of Hrotsvit's plays, hedged his critical bets. His opening words were: Whatever may be thought of the precise merits of these six short dramas . ....
Residence Edith Craig
Ellen Terry sent her daughter EC , with Christopher St John , to bid on a countryside property, Smallhythe Place, in Smallhythe, Kent, for the three of them to share as a summer home.
Holledge, Julie. Innocent Flowers: Women in the Edwardian Theatre. Virago, 1981.
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National Trust Handbook for Members and Visitors: March 1997 to March 1998. National Trust, 1997.
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Textual Features Cicely Hamilton
The pageant required more than fifty actresses, only three of whom had speaking parts, to portray famous women from history (not all of them remembered today). In the initial, Scala production, the only speaking role...

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