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.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Publishing Beatrice Harraden
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, 11 Dec. 1919, p. 750.
750
Publishing Evelyn Sharp
Some of the stories had already appeared in the Manchester Guardian or in Votes for Women.
John, Angela V. “’Behind the Locked Door’: Evelyn Sharp, suffragette and rebel journalist”. Women’s History Review, Vol.
12
, No. 1, 2003, pp. 5-13.
9
DiCenzo, Maria. “Gutter Politics: women newsies and the suffrage press”. Women’s History Review, Vol.
12
, No. 1, 2003, pp. 15-33.
21
Elizabeth Robins wrote an introduction to a second edition published in 1915 by the United Suffragists
Publishing Margaret Haig Viscountess Rhondda
MHVR championed the organised opinion of women throughout the world
qtd. in
Spender, Dale. Time and Tide Wait for No Man. Pandora Press, 1984, http://UofA.
42
in a Time and Tide review of Elizabeth Robins 's feminist treastise, Ancilla's Share: An Indictment of Sex Antagonism.
Spender, Dale. Time and Tide Wait for No Man. Pandora Press, 1984, http://UofA.
42
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, 1975–1980, 6 vols.
3: 479
and my dog...
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...
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 Elizabeth Baker
The programme also included Act II of Elizabeth Robins 's Votes for Women.
Weiss, Rudolf. “Versions of Emancipation: The Dramatic World of Elizabeth Baker”. Sprachkunst, Vol.
20
, No. 2, 1989, pp. 305-16.
311n19
Edith was published fifteen years later, in 1927, by Sidgwick and Jackson .
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 Mona Caird
Scholar Ann Heilmann points out that this article significantly predated a series of commentaries of similar cast by Charlotte Perkins Gilman , Cicely Hamilton , Olive Schreiner , and Elizabeth Robins , which emerged over...
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...
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)
Textual Production Elizabeth De la Pasture
Other women among the signatories were Florence Bell , Elizabeth Robins , and Margaret Louisa Woods . The letter asserts that the entire group were to be received by the Prime Minister, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
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, 2000.
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Textual Production Evelyn Sharp
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...
Textual Production Henrik Ibsen
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.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

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