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.
Black and white photograph of Elizabeth Robins, seated, with one arm resting on the arm of her chair and the other in her lap. She is wearing a dark dress with a high collar and long sleeves, both of which are trimmed with fur, a tall, spreading dark hat probably of feathers, and a long silver chain.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
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.
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Textual Production Virginia Woolf
By 1912 VW had published on Margaret Cavendish (as Duchess of Newcastle), Ann, Lady Fanshawe , Elizabeth Carter , Anna Seward , Elizabeth, Lady Holland , Maria Edgeworth , Lady Hester Stanhope , theBrontë
Reception Virginia Woolf
Woolf's attitude to this honour (which, however, was unusual in that she did not decline it) remained deprecating and satirical. She called it the most insignificant and ridiculous of prizes
Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press.
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and my dog...
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.
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She was a favourite niece (and subject) of photographer Julia Margaret Cameron , on whom...
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.
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Trevelyan, Janet Penrose. The Life of Mrs. Humphry Ward. Constable.
178
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...
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 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...
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
In 1924 ES took issue in a review with Elizabeth Robins 's feminist polemic Ancilla's Share, whose arguments she found (in a later terminology) essentialist as well as potentially separatist. In 1926 ES issued...
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.
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, No. 1, pp. 5-13.
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DiCenzo, Maria. “Gutter Politics: women newsies and the suffrage press”. Women’s History Review, Vol.
12
, No. 1, pp. 15-33.
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Elizabeth Robins wrote an introduction to a second edition published in 1915 by the United Suffragists
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.
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Ritchie, Anne Thackeray, and Hester Helen Thackeray Fuller. Letters of Anne Thackeray Ritchie. J. Murray.
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Timeline

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

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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...

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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...

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June 1908

The Women Writers' Suffrage League was established by Cicely Hamilton and Bessie Hatton .

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

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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...

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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...

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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.
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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.