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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
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| 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. 88 |
| 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. 29n1 OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
| 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. 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. 89 |
| 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. 83 |
| 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, p. xiv - xxiv. xiv |
| Publishing | Hrotsvit of Gandersheim | The only copy listed by OCLC WorldCat is now at Yale
. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
| 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 . .... |
| 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... |
| 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. 118 National Trust Handbook for Members and Visitors: March 1997 to March 1998. National Trust. 222 |
| Textual Features | Hrotsvit of Gandersheim | HG maintained that her great influence in drama was the Latin playwright Terence
, though she diverges from him to ignore the unity of place which was dear to him and other classical dramatists, and... |
| Textual Features | Hrotsvit of Gandersheim | Christopher St John
observes that her style is colloquial, but also so spare and condensed that it is difficult to render into a language other than Latin. She combines medieval habits of latinity with using... |
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