Jago Morrison

Katharine Cockin

Literature and Culture Handbooks are an innovative series of guides to major periods, topics and authors in British and American literature and culture. Designed to provide a comprehensive, one-stop resource for literature students, each handbook provides the essential information and guidance needed from the beginning of a course through to developing more advanced knowledge and skills. Written in clear language by leading academics, they provide an indispensable introduction to key topics, including: • Introduction to authors, texts, historical and cultural contexts • Guides to key critics, concepts and topics • An overview of major critical approaches, changes in the canon and directions of current and future research • Case studies in reading literary and critical texts • Annotated bibliography (including websites), timeline, glossary of critical terms. The Post-War British Literature Handbook is an accessible and comprehensive introduction to literature and culture in post-war Britain.

The Post-War British Literature Handbook

Represents creative writing that emerged around the issue of women's suffrage in the early twentieth century. This work includes six significant novels, a range of drama and representative short stories. It covers a range of key moments within and after the campaign for the vote, revealing changes in perspective and tactics between 1907 and 1924.

Women's Suffrage Literature

This biography explores the life of a person who was neglected as a woman, a lesbian, a theatrical figure and committed activist for women's suffrage.

Dramatic Lives

Edith Craig (1869-1947)

Glenda Norquay

Sowon S. Park

First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Women's Suffrage Literature: The fiction of Gertrude Colmore

Ellen Terry's correspondence was both exuberant and extensive. Her remaining letters provide a fascinating insight into the dynamics of the Victorian theatre, and the difficulties of life for a woman maintaining a successful public persona whilst raising two illegitimate children.

The Collected Letters of Ellen Terry, Volume 4

A comprehensive, accessible and lucid coverage of major issues and key figures in modern and contemporary British literature.

This new biography explores the extraordinary life of Edith Craig (1869-1947), her prolific work in the theatre and her political endeavours for women's suffrage and socialism. At London's Lyceum Theatre in its heyday she worked alongside her mother, Ellen Terry, Henry Irving and Bram Stoker, and gained valuable experience. She was a key figure in creating innovative art theatre work. As director and founder of the Pioneer Players in 1911 she supported the production of women's suffrage drama, becoming a pioneer of theatre aimed at social reform. In 1915 she assumed a leading role with the Pioneer Players in bringing international art theatre to Britain and introducing London audiences to expressionist and feminist drama from Nikolai Evreinov to Susan Glaspell. She captured the imagination of Virginia Woolf, inspiring the portrait of Miss LaTrobe in her 1941 novel Between the Acts, and influenced a generation of actors, such as Sybil Thorndike and Edith Evans. Frequently eclipsed in accounts of theatrical endeavour by her younger brother, Edward Gordon Craig, Edith Craig's contribution both to theatre and to the women's suffrage movement receives timely reappraisal in Katharine Cockin's meticulously researched and wide-ranging biography, released for the seventieth anniversary of Craig's death.

Edith Craig and the Theatres of Art

The Collected Letters of Ellen Terry

In this essay collection, established experts and new researchers, reassess the performances and cultural significance of Ellen Terry, her daughter Edith Craig (1869–1947) and her son Edward Gordon Craig (1872–1966), as well as Bram Stoker, Lewis Carroll and some less familiar figures.

Ellen Terry, Spheres of Influence

A collection of women's suffrage literature, containing 6 significant novels, a wide range of drama, and representative short stories.

Katharine Cockin

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