Edith Craig

Edith Craig

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. She was the daughter of actress Ellen Terry and the progressive English architect-designer Edward William Godwin, and the sister of theatre practitioner Edward Gordon Craig.

As a lesbian, an active campaigner for women's suffrage, and a woman working as a theatre director and producer, Edith Craig has been recovered by feminist scholars as well as theatre historians.[1] Craig lived in a ménage à trois with the dramatist Christabel Marshall and the artist Clare 'Tony' Atwood from 1916 until her death.[2][page needed][3][4][5]

  1. ^ Dymkowski (1992); Cockin (1998); and Gandolfi (2003)
  2. ^ Holroyd (2008)
  3. ^ Rubin, Martin. "A Strange Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving, and Their Remarkable Families by Michael Holroyd", Los Angeles Times, 23 March 2009, accessed 18 October 2015.
  4. ^ Rudd, Jill & Val Gough (eds.)Charlotte Perkins Gilmore: Optimist Reformer, University of Iowa Press, p. 90 (1999)
  5. ^ Law, Cheryl. Suffrage and Power: the Women's Movement, 1918–1928, i B Tauris & Co., p. 221 (1997)

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