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
Textual Production Charlotte Despard
CD published a pamphlet entitled Woman in the New Era, a 51-page publication with an appreciation by Christopher St John .
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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...
Textual Production Clotilde Graves
Many of CG 's sixteen plays (often but not all light comedy), have remained unpublished, though produced on stage in London and New York. The earliest of these, the blank-verse tragedy Nitocris, was...
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...
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
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...
Textual Features Mary Agnes Hamilton
Bondfield was already well known as activist in both industrial and feminist causes, and a leader of the Independent Labour Party .
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape.
107
She was to become Britain's first woman cabinet minister five years after...
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.
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, 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...
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...
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 . ....
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.
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.
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