Clemence Dane

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Standard Name: Dane, Clemence
Birth Name: Winifred Ashton
Pseudonym: Clemence Dane
Pseudonym: Diana Portis
CD wrote, during the earlier twentieth century, over thirty plays for the stage, radio, and screen, in addition to her journalism and other non-fiction, and fourteen fictional works ranging from girls' school novels to detective fiction. Her work frequently addressed political issues of the day.
Black and white photograph of Clemence Dane, shown from the shoulders up, and posed with her body on an angle and her face turned to face the camera directly. She is wearing a black shirt with a long, dark, beaded necklace, and she has short, dark hair.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Literary responses Hannah More
In the early twentieth century More's influence on the great Victorians was not seen as an asset. In 1964 Clemence Dane felt it quite appropriate to celebrate More as a personage while admitting to not...
Friends, Associates Mary Agnes Hamilton
MAH 's memoirs give detailed and affectionate pen-portraits of innumerable friends, made both at home and in many of the other countries she travelled or worked in. Many of her English friends are known names...
Friends, Associates Violet Trefusis
One of VT 's loyal friends at this troubled time was author Clemence Dane , who had sent her birthday greetings that June.
Jullian, Philippe et al. Violet Trefusis: Life and Letters. Hamish Hamilton, 1976.
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Family and Intimate relationships Catherine Carswell
Catherine Jackson (later CC ) sued for annulment and won, making legal history since insanity (of the husband) was not yet grounds for divorce.
Thirteen years later Clemence Dane scored a great popular success with...
Education Elizabeth Jane Howard
In autumn 1940 EJH joined a student repertory company at Bideford in Devon, run by Eileen Thorndike (sister of Sybil). The high point for EJH was playing the lead in Clemence Dane 's play...
death Christopher Marlowe
Standard accounts of his death used to say that it was a brawl, largely caused by himself. But accident seems unlikely. He had recently been brought in for questioning by the Privy Council , but...

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Texts

Dane, Clemence. Tradition and Hugh Walpole. Doubleday, Doran, 1929.
Dane, Clemence. Wild Decembers. William Heinemann, 1932.
Dane, Clemence. Will Shakespeare. William Heinemann, 1921.