Elizabeth Robins - Staging a Life

Talented and beautiful, intelligent and charismatic, Elizabeth Robins was one of the foremost actresses of her day. She began her career on the American stage but settled in late nineteenth-century London wgere age became renowned for her pioneering portrayals of the leading characters in Ibsen's plays.

This versatile woman was also a playwright whose drama VOTES FOR WOMEN! inaugrated suffrage theatre. A leading suffragette, she worked closely with the Pankhursts, remaining an active feminist for the rest of her life.