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.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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, 1975.
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She returned a few years later to...
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
Occupation Henrik Ibsen
After a short spell as an apprentice pharmacist, he embarked on a lengthy career in theatre. He is best remembered today as a dramatist, producing such now-canonical titles as Peer Gynt (in his earlier, poetic...
Occupation Virginia Woolf
In her audience at Brighton were Elizabeth Robins (feminist writer, actress, and Hogarth Press author) and her companion Octavia Wilberforce , a pioneering physician who was soon to become Woolf's doctor.
Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus, 1996.
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Occupation Margaret Haig Viscountess Rhondda
She had been dissatisfied with the coverage of the suffrage campaign by the daily newspapers, and she felt that a weekly journal was better equipped to give something of a considered opinion because writers would...
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...
Performance of text Mary Augusta Ward
MAW 's unsuccessful dramatic version of Eleanor, a collaboration with US playwright Julian Sturgis , opened at the Court Theatre in London with Elizabeth Robins in her last professional role.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press, 1990.
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Trevelyan, Janet Penrose. The Life of Mrs. Humphry Ward. Constable, 1923.
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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, 1994.
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Performance of text Julia Constance Fletcher
JCF's first play, Mrs Lessingham, opened at the Garrick Theatre in London. Elizabeth Robins persuaded John Hare to produce it, and herself played the lead, opposite Johnston Forbes-Robertson .
“Plays of the Month”. The Theatre: a monthly review of the drama, music and the fine arts, Vol.
23
, May 1894, pp. 284-6, https://www.proquest.com/britishperiodicals/docview/8156537/BFEC9EF065B44705PQ/13?accountid=14474&imgSeq=3.
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McVea, Deborah, and Jeremy Treglown. “The Times Literary Supplement and its Contributors”. TLS Centenary Archive.
Fitzsimons, Eleanor. “Julia Constance Fletcher”. Beside Every Man, 19 Apr. 2016, https://eafitzsimons.wordpress.com/2016/04/19/julia-constance-fletcher/.
 
politics May Sinclair
MS was one of twelve Vice-Presidents of the Women Writers' Suffrage League when Flora Annie Steel took over the presidency from Elizabeth Robins .
Boll, Theophilus E. M. Miss May Sinclair: Novelist: A Biographical and Critical Introduction. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1973.
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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...
politics Evelyn Sharp
The Union had been founded in August 1874. This year's annual conference coincided with a court appearance of Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence , Annie Cobden-Sanderson , and others (following their arrest on 23 October), and was therefore...
politics Margaret Haig Viscountess Rhondda
Together with Rebecca West , Cicely Hamilton , and Elizabeth Robins , MHVR founded the Six Point Group , whose motto was Equality First.
qtd. in
Eoff, Shirley. Viscountess Rhondda: Equalitarian Feminist. Ohio State University Press, 1991.
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Eoff, Shirley. Viscountess Rhondda: Equalitarian Feminist. Ohio State University Press, 1991.
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Pugh, Martin. Women and the Women’s Movement in Britain 1914 - 1959. Macmillan Education, 1992.
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politics Marie Belloc Lowndes
The letter challenged a recent antisuffragist manifesto, and stressed three points from Prime Minister Asquith 's statement to suffragists of 14 August. The points were that women had rendered as effective service to their country...
Author summary Henrik Ibsen
The plays of Henrik Ibsen , nineteenth-century Norwegian poet and dramatist, were both controversial and enormously influential in Britain; their use of realist techniques to address contemporary social problems helped to bring about a revolution...

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