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.
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
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...
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...
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...
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
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.
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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...
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)
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.
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...
