Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Christopher St John
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Standard Name: St John, Christopher
Birth Name: Christabel Marshall
Pseudonym: Christopher St John
Writing from the beginning of the twentieth century, CSJ
produced novels, biography, and love-journals, as well as her work for the stage, for which she wrote translations, adaptations, and original plays. She is best remembered for the suffrage play How the Vote Was Won, co-written with Cicely Hamilton
.
Bondfield was already well known as activist in both industrial and feminist causes, and a leader of the Independent Labour Party
.
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape, 1944.
107
She was to become Britain's first woman cabinet minister five years after...
Textual Features
Hrotsvit of Gandersheim
HG maintained that her great influence in drama was the Latin playwright Terence
, though she diverges from him to ignore the unity of place which was dear to him and other classical dramatists, and...
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Hrotsvit of Gandersheim
Christopher St John
observes that her style is colloquial, but also so spare and condensed that it is difficult to render into a language other than Latin. She combines medieval habits of latinity with using...
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Charlotte Despard
CD
published a pamphlet entitled Woman in the New Era, a 51-page publication with an appreciation by Christopher St John
.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
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Stevie Smith
SS
's list of requisites for a critic or reviewer goes like this: Attention, impartiality, and no regard for age or sex.
Smith, Stevie. Me Again. Editors Barbera, Jack and William McBrien, Vintage, 1983.
173
In April 1941 she was reviewing for John O'London's, Country Life...
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Edith Craig
EC
, with Christopher St John
, contributed biographical chapters, a preface, and notes to a new edition of Ellen Terry
's Memoirs.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Terry, Ellen. “Preface; Biographical Chapters”. Ellen Terry’s Memoirs, edited by Edith Craig and Christopher St John, Benjamin Blom, 1969, pp. v - xi; 279.
iii, 362
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Clotilde Graves
Many of CG
's sixteen plays (often but not all light comedy), have remained unpublished, though produced on stage in London and New York. The earliest of these, the blank-verse tragedy Nitocris, was...