Elizabeth Robins

Sowon Park (University of Oxford)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.08: English Writing and Culture of the early Twentieth Century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: Chris Baldick (Goldsmiths College, University of London), Peter Childs (Newman University), Louise McDonald (Newman University)

Dates

Born 6 Aug 1862
Died 1952
Activity 1880-1952

Places

Born in United States
Active in England; United States

Cultural Identities

Feminist

Activities

Primary

Novelist
Theatre actor

Other

Journalist
Playwright / Dramatist
Revolutionary, Activist

Resources

Elizabeth Robins was an American who lived most of her adult life in England. She was one of the most widely-admired actresses of her age, and after a successful theatrical career became an influential feminist activist and writer.

Though she lived in England from 1889 until her death at the age of ninety in 1952, Robins had only intended to stop for a short stay en route home from a visit to Norway. It was the key turning-point in her life; and her beginnings suggest little to anticipate it. She was born during the American civil war in Louisville, Kentucky on the 6 ^thAugust 1862 to Charles Ephraim Robins and Hannah Maria Crow. She was their first child although Charles had a son from a previous marriage. …

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Citation: Park, Sowon. "Elizabeth Robins". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 14 April 2003 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=3817, accessed 25 November 2024.]

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