Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Elizabeth Robins
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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.
Henrik Ibsen
's play Hedda Gabler (published in Copenhagen the previous year) had its first English production with suffragist and writer Elizabeth Robins
playing the lead.
McFarlane, James, editor. The Cambridge Companion to Ibsen. Cambridge University Press.
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Author summary
Henrik Ibsen
The plays of Henrik Ibsen
, nineteenth-century Norwegian poet and dramatist, were both controversial and enormously influential in Britain; their use of realist techniques to address contemporary social problems helped to bring about a revolution...
Occupation
Henrik Ibsen
After a short spell as an apprentice pharmacist, he embarked on a lengthy career in theatre. He is best remembered today as a dramatist, producing such now-canonical titles as Peer Gynt (in his earlier, poetic...
Textual Production
Henrik Ibsen
Henrietta Frances Lord
translated the play into English in 1882 under the title Nora. Her version was followed by a more widely used translation by William Archer
(with unacknowledged assistance from Elizabeth Robins
) in 1889.
Edith Ellis
wrote later that this play made her and her friends breathless with excitement. Their debates over it were restive and impetuous and almost savage. They felt it was either the end of the...
politics
Marie Belloc Lowndes
The letter challenged a recent antisuffragist manifesto, and stressed three points from Prime Minister Asquith
's statement to suffragists of 14 August. The points were that women had rendered as effective service to their country...
Reception
Marie Belloc Lowndes
Samuel Hynes
in the Times Literary Supplement called this book a delight and its author a remarkable woman, yet he introduced his notice with some sweeping, casually sexist comment on that monstrous regiment of writing...
Textual Production
Constance Lytton
CL
's letters and papers are mostly at institutions in London. Her manuscript account of her prison experiences, with other papers, is in the Museum of London
. Her letters to Arthur James Balfour
Eoff, Shirley. Viscountess Rhondda: Equalitarian Feminist. Ohio State University Press.
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Eoff, Shirley. Viscountess Rhondda: Equalitarian Feminist. Ohio State University Press.
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Pugh, Martin. Women and the Women’s Movement in Britain 1914 - 1959. Macmillan Education.
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Publishing
Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda
MHVR
championed the organised opinion of women throughout the world
Spender, Dale. Time and Tide Wait for No Man. Pandora Press, http://UofA.
42
in a Time and Tide review of Elizabeth Robins
's feminist treastise, Ancilla's Share: An Indictment of Sex Antagonism.
Spender, Dale. Time and Tide Wait for No Man. Pandora Press, http://UofA.
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Occupation
Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda
She had been dissatisfied with the coverage of the suffrage campaign by the daily newspapers, and she felt that a weekly journal was better equipped to give something of a considered opinion because writers would...
For centuries LMWM
has been interpreted and re-interpreted, judged less often as writer than as an exemplar of the unacceptable female. Her fame and/or notoriety flourished during her lifetime, and posthumous publications kept it alive...
Cultural formation
Christabel Pankhurst
There is some suggestion that CP
may have had lesbian relationships. She excited devotion among her female followers, and at least one—novelist Elizabeth Robins
—admitted to falling in love with her. CP
also spent much...
Textual Production
Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
At first the journal appeared monthly for threepence an issue, but within six months it began appearing weekly for a penny an issue. Its circulation reached 30,000 by 1909, and much of its profits came...
