Women and Theatre in the Age of Suffrage

The innovative work of Pioneer Players, a London based theatre society founded in 1911 by Edith Craig, is explored here drawing on original archive research and taking an interdisciplinary approach to women's involvement in theatre during the British women's suffrage movement. This book tests the claim that the Pioneer Players was a women's theatre and investigates in a literary context the Pioneer Players' relationship to the women's suffrage movement, to feminism and to women's writing.