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
Literary responses Henrik Ibsen
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...
Performance of text Henrik Ibsen
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.
xxii
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
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...
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)
Friends, Associates Mary Gawthorpe
MG 's correspondents included Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence , Alice Paul , Elizabeth Gurley Flynn , Elizabeth Robins , Helena Swanwick , Henry Nevinson , Havelock Ellis , John Galsworthy , Victor Gollancz , A. R. Orage
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...
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.
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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...
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...
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
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 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...

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