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Edith Ailsa Geraldine Craig ( née Edith Godwin; 9 December 1869 – 27 March 1947), known as Edy Craig, was a prolific theatre director, producer, costume designer and early pioneer of the women's suffrage movement in England.
Actor, producer and designer, Edith Craig (1869-1947) was a suffragette and socialist, and later director of the feminist Pioneer Players for almost 15 years from 1911. Her partner, Christopher St John (1871-1960), born Christabel Marshall, was a feminist playwright, suffragette, and author.
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This guide describes the papers of Ellen Terry and Edith Craig at the National Trust property, Smallhythe Place, Tenterden, Kent, UK. Smallhythe Place was the home of Ellen Terry, established as a memorial to Terry by her daughter Edith Craig and given to the National Trust in 1939.
Edith "Edy" Ailsa Geraldine Craig (9 December 1869 – 27 March 1947) was a prolific theatre director, producer, costume designer and early pioneer of the women's suffrage movement in England. Craig appears as the pageant producer Miss La Trobe in Between the Acts (1941) by Virginia Woolf.
Presentations and a discussion from an event held in Stevenage, Edward Gordon Craig's birthplace, on the 50th anniversary of his death in July 2016. Chris Baugh on Edward Gordon Craig: Exploding Tradition and Inventor of the Modern Stage. Penny Francis MBE: Edward Gordon Craig and Puppetry.
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.
The Ellen Terry and Edith Craig archive comprises some 20,000 items, donated by Edith Craig (1869-1947) to the National Trust in 1939 and consisting of correspondence, manuscripts, press cuttings, programmes, publicity material, photographs, artwork, journals and books.
