Christopher St John

24 October 1871 - 20 October 1960

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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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...
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
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. 251
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. 177
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 That year, the Connoisseurs theatre group mounted a production...
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 A pocket edition appeared from a different publisher the same year. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. On 26 October 1930 the Stage Society in...
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
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...
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...
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. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press. 6: 49 , but wished she had allowed herself a...
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...
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.

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