Norquay, Glenda. Voices and Votes: A Literary Anthology of the Women’s Suffrage Campaign. Manchester University Press, 1995.
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Edith Ellis
Standard Name: Ellis, Edith
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Cultural formation | P. L. Travers | The influence of Zen Buddhism is evident in PLT
's articles for Parabola. Influenced by the work of George Ivanovich Gurdjieff
, and by Karlfried Graf Dürckheim
, she developed an intellectual interest in Zen... |
| Friends, Associates | Emma Frances Brooke | EFB
met Olive Schreiner
either through the Fellowship of the New Life
or the Men and Women's Club
, where both were associates. Schreiner read but remained noncommittal about EFB
's unpublished paper, The Woman... |
| Friends, Associates | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | At the Working Girls' Club in the summer of 1892, EPL
met the essayist and novelist Edith Ellis
(wife of sexologist Havelock Ellis
). She admired Edith Ellis's unconventionality and freedom, and the two women... |
| Literary responses | Henrik Ibsen | Edith Ellis
wrote later that this play made her and her friends breathless with excitement. Their debates over it were restive and impetuous and almost savage. They felt it was either the end of the... |
| politics | Harriet Shaw Weaver | Also around 1912, HSW
took out a subscription to A Weekly Feminist Review: The Freewoman. She soon joined the Freewoman Discussion Circle
. In the discussion circle she heard a talk by Edith Ellis |
| politics | Dora Marsden | According to Marsden, twelve to fifteen people were expected at this meeting but about a hundred attended. Meetings were open to male and female members and were held every two weeks, while chapters were also... |
Timeline
June 1908: The Women Writers' Suffrage League was established...
National or international item
June 1908
The Women Writers' Suffrage League
was established by Cicely Hamilton
and Bessie Hatton
.
Stowell, Sheila. A Stage of Their Own. University of Michigan Press, 1992.
2, 40, 102, 126n1
Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell, 1998.
89
Whitelaw, Lis. The Life and Rebellious Times of Cicely Hamilton. Women’s Press, 1990.
68-74
Liggins, Emma. “The ’Sordid Story’ of an Unwanted Child: Militancy, Motherhood, and Abortion in Elizabeth Robins’s Votes for Women and Way Stations”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
25
, No. 3, Aug. 2018, pp. 347-61. 349
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