Social Victorians/People/Edith Craig

Also Known As edit

  • Edith Ailsa Geraldine Craig
  • Edy Craig

Demographics edit

  • Nationality:

Residences edit

  • 7 Smith Square, London (with Christopher Marie St. John), 1899–1907
  • Adelphi Terrace House, 1907–1909
  • 31 Bedford Street, Covent Garden, 1909–

Family edit


    • Edith Ailsa Geraldine Craig (1869– 1947)
    • Christopher Marie St. John (Christabel Marshall)
    • Clare ("Tony") Atwood (1866–1962)

Relations edit

Acquaintances, Friends and Enemies edit

Acquaintances edit

Friends edit

Enemies edit

Organizations edit

  • The Henrietta Theatre, "a small playhouse that was adjacent to the costumery that [Smith] and Edith Craig operated at Number 13, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden in London."[1] This is 1901.
  • The Independent Theatre
  • The Stage Society
  • The Masquers
  • The Pioneer Players, 1911–1925
  • The Phoenix Society
  • The Renaissance Theatre Society
  • Women's Freedom League
  • Actressess' Franchise League

Timeline edit

1899, Christopher Marie St. John (Christabel Marshall) and Edith Craig became partners.

1902–1903, Craig "collaborated with the artist Pamela Coleman Smith on the design of scenes for William Butler Yeats's Where there is Nothing and J. M. Synge's The Well of the Saints."[2]

1916, Clare ("Tony") Atwood (1866–1962), joined Craig and St. John.

1923, performed in the film Fires of Fate, adaptation of a story by Arthur Conan Doyle.

Questions and Notes edit

References edit

  1. Norfleet, Phil. "Biography of Pamela Colman Smith." http://pcs2051.tripod.com/index.htm (March 2011).
  2. Cockin, Katharine. "Edith Ailsa Geraldine Craig." ODNB.

Works by Edith Craig edit

  • Craig, Edith, and Cicely Hamilton. A Pageant of Great Women.