Publication July 2010
ISBN 978-1-906582-08-1
Price £7.99
Extent 128 pages

ART THEATRE AND WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE

Irene Cockroft and Susan Croft

Was published to coincide with a major exhibition in 2010. (click here)

An exploration of the creative explosion that
occurred when the campaign for the vote brought
together the talents of so many female writers
and artists at the start of the 20th century.

An overview of the artists, designers, writers and actors involved in the long campaign for women's suffrage.

Writers and artists included:
Cicely Hamilton/Chris St. John/Inez Bensusan/Elizabeth Robins/Ernestine Mills/Pamela Colman Smith/Mary Lowndes/Emily Ford/Sylvia Pankhurst.

'...This is not a book about the gesture. It's a story of connected bravery... a compelling reminder of a fierce and quietly - neglected artistic movement.' - Exeunt Magazine

Irene Cockroft

Is an independent exhibition curator, author and lecturer specializing in the story of women's involvement in the late 19th and early 20th Century Arts & Crafts and Suffrage movements. Irene is the great-niece of suffrage artist and enameller Ernestine Mills (1871-1959). She represents a direct link with the Women's Suffrage campaign.

Her writing includes: New Dawn Women - Women In The Arts & Crafts And Suffrage Movements At The Dawn Of The 20th Century; Watts Gallery 2005.

Dr Susan Croft

has done extensive... research and published widely on women playwrights. Her work includes: Classic Plays by Women (Aurora Metro 2010); Votes for Women and other plays (Aurora Metro 2009) and She Also Wrote Plays (Faber 2001). From 1997 to 2005 she was the Curator of Contemporary Performance at the Theatre Museum in London.