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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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Edith Craig died of coronary thrombosis and chronic myocarditis on 27th March 1947. According to Katharine Cockin, the author of Edith Craig (1998), Christabel Marshall destroyed all her "papers (and presumably the memoirs)" after Craig's death.
Jan 26, 2017 · Edith Craig and the Theatres of Art. Katharine Cockin. Bloomsbury Publishing, Jan 26, 2017 - - 328 pages. This new biography explores the extraordinary life of Edith Craig (1869-1947), her...
Mini Bio (1) Edith Craig born in Hertfordshire in 1869 from a famous theatre family, daughter of the legendary stage star Ellen Terry and architect-designer Edward William Godwin. Edith became a well-known stage director, producer, costume designer and actress making her stage debut at the Royal Court Theatre in 1878, sophisticated upper-class ...
Introduction: Edith Craig Retrospectives. Chapter Two 1869-1902 Her Mother's Daughter: The Lyceum's Apprentice. Chapter Three 1903-07 The New Woman Experiments and the Genealogy of the 'Scala masque' Chapter Four. 1907-1914 The Art of Women's Suffrage Theatre and the 'fire of Prometheus'
Feb 16, 2017 · Edith (Edy) Craig (1869-1947) was an inspirational and important Modernist theatre-maker, but it is only in the past 30 years that her significance as a director, costumier, pageant-maker, feminist, lesbian and suffrage activist has been appreciated.