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
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'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 |
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Travel | Amber Reeves | |
Leisure and Society | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | Subscribers to the portrait included Gertrude Bell
, Arnold Bennett
, Rhoda Broughton
, Lucy Clifford
, Henry James
, Elizabeth Robins
, the Tennyson
s, Josephine Ward
, and Margaret Woods
. Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press. 272-3 Ritchie, Anne Thackeray, and Hester Helen Thackeray Fuller. Letters of Anne Thackeray Ritchie. J. Murray. 285-7 |
Leisure and Society | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | ATR
remained active into her seventies, forging friendships with newer writers such as feminist Elizabeth Robins
, and entertaining her stepnieces Virginia
and Vanessa Stephen
. Virginia used her as the model for Mrs Hilbery... |
Friends, Associates | Evelyn Sharp | Others with whom she shared this or that memorable experience were the Meynells (Wilfrid
, Alice
, and Viola
), Clarence Rook
and his wife, and Henry W. Nevinson
, whom she eventually married... |
politics | Evelyn Sharp | The Union had been founded in August 1874. This year's annual conference coincided with a court appearance of Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
, Annie Cobden-Sanderson
, and others (following their arrest on 23 October), and was therefore... |
Textual Production | Evelyn Sharp | |
Publishing | Evelyn Sharp | Some of the stories had already appeared in the Manchester Guardian or in Votes for Women. John, Angela V. “’Behind the Locked Door’: Evelyn Sharp, suffragette and rebel journalist”. Women’s History Review, Vol. 12 , No. 1, pp. 5-13. 9 DiCenzo, Maria. “Gutter Politics: women newsies and the suffrage press”. Women’s History Review, Vol. 12 , No. 1, pp. 15-33. 21 |
Friends, Associates | George Bernard Shaw | He was an important figure in the lives and careers of almost innumerable women writers: a good friend of Annie Besant
, Sylvia Pankhurst
, Elizabeth Robins
, and Christopher St John
, a romantic... |
politics | May Sinclair | MS
was one of twelve Vice-Presidents of the Women Writers' Suffrage League
when Flora Annie Steel
took over the presidency from Elizabeth Robins
. Boll, Theophilus E. M. Miss May Sinclair: Novelist: A Biographical and Critical Introduction. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 96 |
Textual Production | May Sinclair | The March 1908 issue of Votes for Women carried a joint Message by MS
and the novelist and playwright Elizabeth Robins
, in which Sinclair declared her support for the cause. Raitt, Suzanne. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian. Clarendon Press. 110 |
Friends, Associates | Susan Tweedsmuir | ST
's parents made connections through friendship as remarkable as those made for them by family descent. Her mother was a friend of many writers and intellectuals of both sexes, including Marie Belloc Lowndes
,... |
Friends, Associates | Susan Tweedsmuir | ST
made her own the friendship with Elizabeth Robins
that had begun because Robins was a friend of her mother's. She was also close to playwright-producer Harley Granville-Barker
and particularly to his second wife, the... |
Performance of text | Mary Augusta Ward | MAW
's unsuccessful dramatic version of Eleanor, a collaboration with US playwright Julian Sturgis
, opened at the Court Theatre
in London with Elizabeth Robins
in her last professional role. Sutherland, John. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press. 414 Trevelyan, Janet Penrose. The Life of Mrs. Humphry Ward. Constable. 178 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Virginia Woolf | VW
's mother, née Julia Prinsep Jackson
(1846-95), was born in India and brought to England as a toddler. Hussey, Mark. Virginia Woolf A to Z. Facts on File. 267 |
Occupation | Virginia Woolf | In her audience at Brighton were Elizabeth Robins
(feminist writer, actress, and Hogarth Press
author) and her companion Octavia Wilberforce
, a pioneering physician who was soon to become Woolf's doctor. Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus. 733 |
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