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 She also wrote one unpublished play for children. Her unpublished papers—correspondence, prompt books, and playbills—document her significant contribution to feminist theatre history.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.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Performance of text Colette
She was revising the novel at Rozven in Brittany (near St Malo) in July 1919.
Colette,. Lettres à Sa Fille, 1916-1953. Editor Jouvenel, Anne de, Gallimard, 2003.
29n1
A pocket edition appeared from a different publisher the same year.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
On 26 October 1930 the Stage Society in...
Performance of text Cicely Hamilton
Later that year it toured provincial suffrage societies for the Actresses' Franchise League , under the direction of Edith Craig . It eventually became a staple piece for Craig's Pioneer Players .
Performance of text Constance Holme
CH 's dialect play The Home of Vision (one of her only two dramatic pieces to be performed in London over the course of her career) was acted by Edith Craig 's Pioneer Players .
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Performance of text Edith Lyttelton
Edith Craig 's Pioneer Players mounted a production of Two Pierrots, EL 's adaptation of Rostand 's play Les deux Pierrots (which has been described as a curtain-raiser), at London's Little Theatre .
Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press, 1973.
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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.
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
Performance of text Vita Sackville-West
VSW gave a reading of The Land at the Barn Theatre at Smallhythe, run by Edith Craig and Christopher St John .
Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin, 1984.
251
Performance of text Cicely Hamilton
The premiere of CH 's suffrage drama A Pageant of Great Women, with direction and some collaboration by Edith Craig , was given at the Scala Theatre in London.
Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell, 1998.
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Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell, 1998.
82-3
Cockin, Katharine. “Cicely Hamilton’s Warriors: dramatic reinventions of militancy in the British women’s suffrage movement”. Women’s History Review, Vol.
14
, No. 3/4, pp. 527-42.
529
Performance of text Cicely Hamilton
CH 's performance piece known as The Anti-Suffrage Waxworks was taken on tour by Edith Craig for the Actresses' Franchise League .
Demastes, William W., and Katherine E. Kelly, editors. British Playwrights, 1880-1956. Greenwood Press, 1996.
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Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell, 1998.
100
Performance of text Cicely Hamilton
Jack and Jill and a Friend, CH 's comic drama about the difficulties of being a woman writer, was performed by the Pioneer Players at the Kingsway Theatre in London, directed by Edith Craig .
Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell, 1998.
221
Whitelaw, Lis. The Life and Rebellious Times of Cicely Hamilton. Women’s Press, 1990.
124-5
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, 1998.
87
Publishing Charlotte Despard
This was one of the earliest publications of the International Suffrage Shop , established the same year by Sime Seruya in the London home of St John and Edith Craig . It had already appeared...
Reception Cicely Hamilton
The play was both a critical success and enormously popular, though some trade papers attacked it as being propagandist.
Whitelaw, Lis. The Life and Rebellious Times of Cicely Hamilton. Women’s Press, 1990.
88
Edith Craig directed a nationwide tour (England and Wales) of the play in 1910...
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, 1998.
61-2
Residence Christopher St John
CSJ and Edith Craig moved to Priest's House, Smallhythe Place, Tenterden, Kent, on the property of Craig's mother 's farm.
Auerbach, Nina. Ellen Terry: Player in Her Time. W.W. Norton, 1987.
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Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell, 1998.
229
Residence Christopher St John
CSJ and Edith Craig rented a residence in London, a third-floor flat at 31 Bedford Street, Covent Garden; this flat became a refuge for suffragists just out of prison or wanted by police.
Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell, 1998.
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Holledge, Julie. Innocent Flowers: Women in the Edwardian Theatre. Virago, 1981.
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Auerbach, Nina. Ellen Terry: Player in Her Time. W.W. Norton, 1987.
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