Votes for Women

Susan CroftSusan is a writer, historian, curator and researcher. She worked in the USAwith the Omaha Magic Theatre in the early 1980s, returning to Britain towork as a dramaturg with small-scale theatre companies and foundingNew Playwrights Trust, of which she was Director from 1986-89. She taught Creative Arts (Performance) at Nottingham Trent Universityand then was Senior Research Fellow in Performance Arts at ManchesterMetropolitan University to 1996. From 1997-2005 she was Curator ofContemporary Performance at the Theatre Museum where she worked onthe National Video Archive of Performance. She also curated four majorexhibitions including Let Paul Robeson Sing! and Architects of Fantasyand pioneered a range of initiatives to record the history of black and Asiantheatre in Britain. She has written extensively on women playwrights, including: ...SheAlso Wrote Plays: an International Guide to Women Playwrights fromthe 10th to the 21st Century (Faber and Faber, 2001). She is working on aCritical Bibliography of Plays Published by Women Playwrights in Englishto 1914 for Manchester University Press and a major anthology Staging theNew Woman, with Sherry Engle. She also runs the project Unfinished Histories: Recording the Historyof Alternative Theatre, with Jessica Higgs, a major initiative to record oralhistories and preserve archives of the alternative theatre movement fromthe 1960s to the 1980s. See www.susan.croft.btinternet.co.uk for furtherdetails. She lives in London with her partner and two children.

"This book is brilliant - it has some better known Suffrage Plays and some lesser known gems as well as a list of all the Suffrage plays performed and lots of extra info. It's an extraordinary resource. Total gem. The author wears her scholarship lightly and it is easy to read - however the amount of information is fantastic and very detailed. There is so much to this book and it is an essential and much needed addition to the books available on Suffrage theatre. "- NP Amazon *****5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent addition to the collections of Suffragette plays 2 Sept. 2016By Angus Hepburn - Published on Amazon.comFormat: Paperback Verified Purchase"An excellent collection with lots of background information and references. Some duplications with other collections, but the pieces exclusive to this collection and the extremely informative author and historical background pieces make this well worth while."

• Introduction 7Votes for Women (1907) 21A Change of Tenant (1908) 107At the Gates (1909) 121How the Vote was Won (1909) 141The Apple (1911) 167In the Workhouse (1911) 193Jim's Leg (1913) 209Chronology 216Bibliography 239Universal Suffrage dates 245Useful links 255