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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 | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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
. |
| 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... |
| 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's sixteen plays (often but not all light comedy), have remained unpublished, though produced on stage in London and New York.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... |
| 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 |
| 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
. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
| 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 |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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 |
| 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. 9 |
| 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. 175 Auerbach, Nina. Ellen Terry: Player in Her Time. W.W. Norton. 480 Holledge, Julie. Innocent Flowers: Women in the Edwardian Theatre. Virago. 115 Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell. 61-2 |
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