Edith Craig

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Standard Name: Craig, Edith
Birth Name: Ailsa Edith Geraldine Craig
Nickname: Edy
Self-constructed Name: Ailsa Craig
EC was primarily a theatre practitioner, known chiefly for her Pioneer Players , the women's theatre company she founded in 1911. Her literary output was scant. She published a handful of articles on stagecraft, and contributed to a revised edition of her mother Ellen Terry 's memoirs. She also wrote one unpublished play for children. Her unpublished papers—correspondence, prompt books, and playbills—document her significant contribution to feminist theatre history.
Black and white photograph of Edith Craig, shown from the shoulders up. Her head is leaning against one hand, her light hair is cut short, and she is wearing a black jacket with a white collar and cuffs, over a white shirt with ruffles at the front.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
politics Christopher St John
Sime Seruya established the International Suffrage Shop as a feminist publisher and bookseller; it operated out of CSJ and Edith Craig 's home in Bedford Street.
Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell.
87
Performance of text Christopher St John
This had reached print bearing the date of 1911.
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After the play was banned from the public stage by the censor, a benefit performance was put on for the International Suffrage Shop . Kate Parry Frye
Family and Intimate relationships Christopher St John
CSJ 's and Edith Craig 's household expanded to include the painter Tony (Clare) Atwood ; the three lived together in Smallhythe Place and London for the rest of their lives.
Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell.
124, 181
Occupation Christopher St John
After the death of Ellen Terry , Edith Craig and CSJ turned the barn on their property at Smallhythe into a theatre ; the farm they renamed the Ellen Terry Memorial Museum .
Auerbach, Nina. Ellen Terry: Player in Her Time. W.W. Norton.
400, 453
Friends, Associates Christopher St John
CSJ , Edith Craig , and Tony Atwood spent much time in the company of Radclyffe Hall and Una Troubridge , who were staying temporarily in Kent while their house was being renovated.
Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell.
161
Leisure and Society Christopher St John
CSJ and Edith Craig hosted a reading of The Land performed by its author, Vita Sackville-West .
Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin.
251
Leisure and Society Christopher St John
The Annual Ellen Terry Memorial Performance was held at the Barn Theatre , Smallhythe: the three women commemorated were Ellen Terry , Edith Craig , and Virginia Woolf .
Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell.
176
Family and Intimate relationships Christopher St John
CSJ 's life was changed when Edith Craig died (after almost fifty years together) at Priest's House, the home they had shared with Tony Atwood.
Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell.
181, 229
Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin.
349
Holledge, Julie. Innocent Flowers: Women in the Edwardian Theatre. Virago.
153
Textual Production Christopher St John
CSJ gave her love journal, The Golden Book, to Edith Craig ; it depicted some of her more intimate feelings for Craig.
Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell.
24, 71
Textual Production Christopher St John
CSJ wrote a biographical introduction to Edy: Recollections of Edith Craig, edited by Eleanor Adlard .
The University of Alberta Library copy contains a handwritten note from CSJ that reads: To Christopher Wood In...
Cultural formation Christopher St John
At some point after CSJ met her long-time partner Edith Craig , she converted from her family's Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism .
Auerbach, Nina. Ellen Terry: Player in Her Time. W.W. Norton.
389
Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin.
250
Cultural formation Christopher St John
She had since childhood, apparently, believed that she ought have been male because of her love for women. According to Ellen Terry's biographer Nina Auerbach : Many lesbians of that period gave themselves men's names...
Friends, Associates Christopher St John
Christabel Marshall (later CSJ ) met the actress Ellen Terry and her daughter Edith Craig ; they soon became intimate friends.
Auerbach, Nina. Ellen Terry: Player in Her Time. W.W. Norton.
480
Residence Christopher St John
After leaving 7 Smith Square, CSJ and Edith Craig moved to Adelphi Terrace House.
Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell.
61-2
Family and Intimate relationships Christopher St John
CSJ and Edith Craig rented a flat together at 7 Smith Square, Westminster, in London; they lived together, there and elsewhere, until Craig's death in 1947.
Auerbach, Nina. Ellen Terry: Player in Her Time. W.W. Norton.
480
Holledge, Julie. Innocent Flowers: Women in the Edwardian Theatre. Virago.
115
Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell.
61-2

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