Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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
.
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
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Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape.
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She was to become Britain's first woman cabinet minister five years after...
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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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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's sixteen plays (often but not all light comedy), have remained unpublished, though produced on stage in London and New York.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...
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Stevie Smith
SS
's list of requisites for a critic or reviewer goes like this: Attention, impartiality, and no regard for age or sex.
Smith, Stevie. Me Again. Editors Barbera, Jack and William McBrien, Vintage.
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In April 1941 she was reviewing for John O'London's, Country Life...
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Edith Craig
EC
, with Christopher St John
, contributed biographical chapters, a preface, and notes to a new edition of Ellen Terry
's Memoirs.
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Terry, Ellen. “Preface; Biographical Chapters”. Ellen Terry’s Memoirs, edited by Edith Craig and Christopher St John, Benjamin Blom, pp. v - xi; 279.