Sheila Stowell

Standard Name: Stowell, Sheila

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Literary responses Elizabeth Baker
Critic Sheila Stowell , contrasting Baker's heroine with Bernard Shaw 's more ambivalent characterizations of the New Woman, sees the role of Edith as a clear and positive alternative for women.
Stowell, Sheila. A Stage of Their Own. University of Michigan Press, 1992.
103
Weiss, Rudolf. “Versions of Emancipation: The Dramatic World of Elizabeth Baker”. Sprachkunst, Vol.
20
, No. 2, 1989, pp. 305-16.
311
Literary responses Inez Bensusan
Critic Sheila Stowell finds this an effective and persuasive suffrage play.
Stowell, Sheila. A Stage of Their Own. University of Michigan Press, 1992.
46
Literary responses Githa Sowerby
The play garnered high praise from critics. One reviewer placed GSin the very first rank of our playwrights
qtd. in
Fitzsimmons, Linda. “Githa Sowerby (1876-1970)”. New Woman Plays, edited by Linda Fitzsimmons and Viv Gardner, Methuen, 1991, pp. 135-7.
135
and Emma Goldman called her a genius [whose] exceptional maturity is a phenomenon rarely observed...
Literary responses George Paston
The Sketch recognized the feminism in the play's comic ending, which put the whole theory of the solidary of women . . . into dramatic form.
qtd. in
Kaplan, Joel H., and Sheila Stowell. Theatre and Fashion: Oscar Wilde to the Suffragettes. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
168
The Era immediately saw through GP 's masculine...

Timeline

10 December 1908: The inaugural meeting of the Actresses' Franchise...

National or international item

10 December 1908

The inaugural meeting of the Actresses' Franchise League was held at the Criterion Restaurant in London.
Stowell, Sheila. A Stage of Their Own. University of Michigan Press, 1992.
2
John, Angela V. Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life, 1862-1952. Routledge, 1995.
148
Hayman, Carole, and Dale Spender, editors. How the Vote Was Won: and Other Suffragette Plays. Methuen, 1985.
10-11
Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell, 1998.
87
Whitelaw, Lis. The Life and Rebellious Times of Cicely Hamilton. Women’s Press, 1990.
77-8
Theatre historian Sheila Stowell notes that the League arose from recognising the propaganda...

Texts

Stowell, Sheila. A Stage of Their Own. University of Michigan Press, 1992.
Kaplan, Joel H., and Sheila Stowell. Theatre and Fashion: Oscar Wilde to the Suffragettes. Cambridge University Press, 1994.