Elizabeth Robins

-
Standard Name: Robins, Elizabeth
Birth Name: Elizabeth Robins
Married Name: Elizabeth Parks
Pseudonym: Claire Raimond
Pseudonym: C. E. Raimond
ER 's political commitment to feminism is evident throughout her plays, novels, travel writing, and essays, in which she addresses issues ranging from women's suffrage to the rest cure and white slave trade. Through much of her writing career (which spanned a decade of the nineteenth century and four decades of the twentieth) she insisted on maintaining anonymity despite pressure from her publishers to capitalize on her fame as an actress.

Connections

Connections Author name Sort descending Excerpt
Textual Production Elizabeth Baker
The programme also included Act II of Elizabeth Robins 's Votes for Women.
Weiss, Rudolf. “Versions of Emancipation: The Dramatic World of Elizabeth Baker”. Sprachkunst, Vol.
20
, No. 2, pp. 305-16.
311n19
Edith was published fifteen years later, in 1927, by Sidgwick and Jackson .
Friends, Associates Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The Maxwells had frequent house guests and entertained regularly at both their houses. Later friends and acquaintances included Robert Browning , Mary Cholmondeley , Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , Ford Madox Ford , Thomas Hardy
Textual Production Mona Caird
Scholar Ann Heilmann points out that this article significantly predated a series of commentaries of similar cast by Charlotte Perkins Gilman , Cicely Hamilton , Olive Schreiner , and Elizabeth Robins , which emerged over...
Textual Features Mona Caird
In The Duel of the Sexes, MC expresses regret that some of those who had benefited from the women's movement had done nothing to support it and tended to cry down women: she cited...
Textual Production Ella D'Arcy
Six stories by EDA have been identified as published between 1899 and 1910 (after the demise of The Yellow Book in April 1897) in Century Magazine, Temple Bar, and The English Review (which...
Textual Production Elizabeth De la Pasture
Other women among the signatories were Florence Bell , Elizabeth Robins , and Margaret Louisa Woods . The letter asserts that the entire group were to be received by the Prime Minister, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
Other Life Event Ella Hepworth Dixon
EHD helped William Heinemann , William Archer , and Elizabeth Robins put on a reading of Ibsen'sJohn Gabriel Borkman in London for copyright purposes. She played a small part, which she read in German...
Occupation Florence Farr
FF retired temporarily from the stage in 1897, disappointed at not having received the same recognition as other New Woman actresses (Elizabeth Robins , for instance).
Johnson, Josephine. Florence Farr: Bernard Shaw’s new woman. Colin Smythe.
67
She returned a few years later to...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Florence Farr
One piece critiques Shaw 's clinical treatment of his female models: [H]e seats her in a dentist's chair, puts a gag in her mouth, isolates a tooth as ruthlessly as any dentist and then takes...
Leisure and Society Kate Parry Frye
When in London KPF enjoyed going to the theatre, often with John Robert Collins . She loved Votes for Women! by Elizabeth Robins in April 1907, thought Ibsen 's A Doll's House splendid in March...
Friends, Associates Mary Gawthorpe
Textual Production Sarah Grand
An entire literary-social movement evolved alongside SG 's writings about the New Woman. New Woman fiction, amounting to a new genre, had already been produced by George Egerton in 1893, and was produced by Iota (Kathleen Caffyn)
politics Sarah Grand
In an interview in 1896, SG made clear her belief in the need for female suffrage: We shall do no good until we get the Franchise, for however well-intentioned men may be, they cannot understand...
Publishing Beatrice Harraden
BH and Elizabeth Robins wrote jointly to the Times Literary Supplement, advocating an extension of the Sussex Hospital for Women and Children and advertising a literary fundraising bazaar to be held in Brighton.
Harraden, Beatrice, and Elizabeth Robins. “The Sussex Hospital”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 934, p. 750.
750
Occupation Beatrice Harraden
During the First World War, BH worked for Belgian relief and visited refugee camps under the auspices of the Commission for Relief in Belgium . She also worked as a volunteer (with Elizabeth Robins

Timeline

November-December 1906: Mediation in the Book WarRSC: link to other...

Writing climate item

November-December 1906

Mediation in the Book War (of the Times Book Club against the Net Book Agreement) was attempted unsuccessfully by an unofficial committee composed of several eminent authors.

11 December 1906: Millicent Garrett Fawcett gave a banquet...

Building item

11 December 1906

Millicent Garrett Fawcett gave a banquet at the Savoy Hotel in London to celebrate the release from Holloway Prison of suffragists arrested on 23 October.

June 1908: The Women Writers' Suffrage League was established...

National or international item

June 1908

10 December 1908: The inaugural meeting of the Actresses' Franchise...

National or international item

10 December 1908

The inaugural meeting of the Actresses' Franchise League was held at the Criterion Restaurant in London.

28 March 1912: The Conciliation Bill (on suffrage) was defeated...

National or international item

28 March 1912

The Conciliation Bill (on suffrage) was defeated in a House of Commons vote, after passing its second reading (the previous year) with a huge majority.

14 May 1920: Time and Tide began publication, offering...

Building item

14 May 1920

Time and Tide began publication, offering a feminist approach to literature, politics, and the arts: Naomi Mitchison called it the first avowedly feminist literary journal with any class, in some ways ahead of its time.
Mitchison, Naomi. You May Well Ask: A Memoir 1920-1940. Gollancz.
168

Texts

Robins, Elizabeth. A Dark Lantern. Heinemann, 1905.
Bell, Florence, and Elizabeth Robins. Alan’s Wife. Henry, 1893.
Robins, Elizabeth. Ancilla’s Share. Hutchinson, 1924.
Robins, Elizabeth. Ancilla’s Share. Hyperion Press, 1976.
Robins, Elizabeth. Both Sides of the Curtain. Heinemann, 1940.
Robins, Elizabeth. Camilla. Dodd, Mead, 1918.
Robins, Elizabeth. Come and Find Me. Heinemann, 1908.
Robins, Elizabeth. Ibsen and the Actress. Hogarth Press, 1928.
Robins, Elizabeth. Raymond and I. Hogarth Press, 1956.
Robins, Elizabeth. The Alaska-Klondike Diary of Elizabeth Robins, 1900. Editors Moessner, Victoria Joan and Joanne E. Gates, University of Alaska Press, 1999.
Robins, Elizabeth. The Convert. Methuen, 1907.
Robins, Elizabeth. The Magnetic North. Heinemann, 1904.
Robins, Elizabeth. The Messenger. The Century, 1919.
Robins, Elizabeth. The New Moon. Heinemann, 1895.
Robins, Elizabeth. The Open Question. Heinemann, 1898.
Robins, Elizabeth. The Secret That Was Kept. Harper and Brothers, 1926.
Harraden, Beatrice, and Elizabeth Robins. “The Sussex Hospital”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 934, p. 750.
James, Henry. Theatre and Friendship. Editor Robins, Elizabeth, J. Cape, 1932.
Robins, Elizabeth. Time Is Whispering. Harper and Brothers, 1923.
Robins, Elizabeth. Votes for Women. Mills & Boon, 1907.
Robins, Elizabeth. Way Stations. Hodder and Stoughton, 1913.
Robins, Elizabeth. Where Are You Going To. ?. Heinemann, 1913.