1401. Archer, Charles. William Archer: Life, Work and Friendships. London: Allen & Unwin, 1931.
1402. Archer, William. ‘“A.B.W.” and Alan’s Wife.’ Letter. Speaker 20 May 1893: 603. Extract reprinted in Alan’s Wife (No. 98). [Includes letters from ER to Archer and H. de Lange to Archer.]
1403. —. ‘The Indigestible Drama.’ Letter. Speaker 13 May 1893: 542-543. Extract reprinted in Alan’s Wife (No. 98).
1404. —. ‘Pessimism and Tragedy.’ Fortnightly Review 71, n.s. 65, Mar 1899: 390-400. [Contains a long discussion of the alleged pessimism of The Open Question, 396ff. Takes issue in particular with No. 1448. A summary of this article appears in Literary Digest 18 Feb 1899. ERP, Series 11 A, Scrapbook 12.
See also Nos. 292 and 1249.
1405. ‘The Author of “The Magnetic North.’” Post 21 May 1904. ERP, Series 11 A, 1904 Scrapbook.
1406. [B., M.A.] ‘Hedda Gabler: An Interview with Miss Elizabeth Robins and Miss Marion Lea.’ Illustrated London News 30 May 1891: 720. [ER has written Marie Belloc? alongside her clipping of this item. ERP, Series 11 A, Scrapbook 7.]
1407. Bell, Lady Florence. ‘Personalities and Powers. Elizabeth Robins.’ Time and Tide 1 (1920): 7-8. Reprinted in her Landmarks: A Reprint of Some Essays and Other Pieces Published Between the years 1894 and 1922. London: Ernest Benn, 1929.
1408. Bennett, Arnold. ‘Books and Persons (An Occasional Causerie).’ New Age III 8 Aug 1908: 292-293. Signed Jacob Tonson. [Discusses women novelists, including Robins.]
1409. —. ‘Some Younger Reputations.’ Academy LV 10 Dec 1898: 428-432. Unsigned. [Assesses C.E. Raimond’s development as a writer 428-429.]
F or details of Bennett’s reviews of Robins’s performances in Little Eyolf, Mariana and An Enemy of the People, and a memory of her performance as Hedda Tesman see Arnold Bennett: An Annotated Bibliography 1887-1932, ed. Anita Miller. New York: Garland, 1977.
See also Nos. 307, 356, 385, 407.
1410. Bibliophile Dictionary. 1904. Reprinted Detroit: Gale, 1966.
1411. Blake, Warren Barton. ‘The Novels of Elizabeth Robins: An Impression.’ Book News Monthly 29 (1910/11): 243-245.
1412. ‘Books of the Year.’ Morning Post 29 Dec 1898. ERP, Series 11 A, Scrapbook 12. [Reports that the moral of The Open Question has been ‘almost entirely exploded by Sir W. Broadbent’s fine address on Tubercular Disease.’]
1413. Caird, Mona. ‘The Position of Women. I. The Duel of the Sexes.—A Comment.’ Fortnightly Review n.s. LXXVIII (July-Dec 1905): 109-122. [No. 666 criticises Caird who categorises ER as a reactionist in favour of brutal male-female relations on the strength of A Dark Lantern.]
1414. Chambers, Robert. Chambers’ Cyclopedia of English Literature. Vol. 3 19th-20th Century Literature. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1938.
1 115. Clear, Claudius. ‘ “Vaary the Schane”: The Rest Cure.” British Weekly 8 June 1905. ERP, bundle of reviews of A Dark Lantern.
1416. Courtney, William Leonard. The Feminine Note in Fiction. London: Chapman & Hall, 1904. [Has a chapter on Robins’s The Open Question and The Magnetic North based on his Daily Telegraph reviews.]
For Courtney’s reviews of her novels see Nos. 396, 499, 622, 687, 725, 755, 785, 1067.
1417. [Crackanthorpe, Blanche.] Milly’s Story (The New Moon). London: William Heinemann, 1894. [ Mrs Montague Crackanthorpe’s authorship is acknowledged in Heinemann’s publisher’s advertisements in Bjornstjerne Bjornson’s Magnhild and Dust. The novel is a rewriting of ER’s The New Moon from the point of view of the superstitious wife. ER collected reviews of Crackanthorpe’s book (ERP, Series 11 A, Scrapbook 8). The British Library catalogue incorrectly lists ER as the author, although the book held at the call number is ER’s The New Moon.
1418. Daily Chronicle 2 Dec 1898. Paragraph revealing ER’s pseudonym. Reprinted in East Anglian Daily Times (Ipswich) 5 Dec 1898. [ER blamed this report for the revelation of her pseudonym. The Daily Mail reported the news on the same day. The Academy hinted unmistakably at her authorship on 26 Nov 1898. ERP, Series 11 A, Scrapbook 12. ER’s pseudonym was apparently revealed in the New York Times by Henry Norman shortly before 20 Nov 1898, although I could not verify this. The item is not listed in the appropriate index to the New York Times and a search of the edition available on microform was fruitless. Source of reference: a letter from Jeannette Gilder in the same scrapbook.]
1419. Downey, W. & D. ‘Miss Elizabeth Robins.’ Cabinet portrait gallery reproduced from original photographs. Series 4. London: Cassell, 1893.
1420. Dreier, Mary E. Margaret Dreier Robins: Her Life, Letters and Work. New York: Island, 1950.
1421. ‘VIII—Elizbbeth [sic] Robins.’ Court Circular 9 Sept 1899. ERP, Series 11 A, Scrapbook 12.
1422. Franc, Miriam. Ibsen in England. Boston: Four Seas, 1919.
1423. Frierson, William C. The English Novel in Transition 1885-1940. Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 1942. [Contains a summary of George Mandeville’s Husband.]
1424. Gates, W.F. ‘Elizabeth Robbins [sic], the Actress and Authoress and Her Sensational Book.’ Seattle Post Intelligencer 31 Dec 1899. ERP, Series 11A, Scrapbook 12.
1425. Gilder, Jeannette L. ‘Some Women Writers.’ Outlook (New York) 78 (1904): 281-289.
1426. H., E. ‘The Woman As She Is: Miss Elizabeth Robins.’ Daily Citizen 23 Jan 1913. ERP, Series 12K, 13.
1427. Hamilton, Clayton.‘The Promise of the New Playwrights.’ Forum 41 Apr 1909: 332-343. [Discusses among other plays Votes for Women.]
1428. Hammerton, John A., ed. Concise Universal Biography: A Dictionary of Famous Men and Women of All Countries and All Times. 2 vols. 1934-1935. Reprinted Detroit: Gale, 1975.
1429. Hardy, Thomas. Letter. Westminster Gazette 9 May 1893. Reprinted as an appendix to Alan’s Wife (No. 98).
1430. Hart-Davis, Rupert, ed. More Letters of Oscar Wilde. London: John Murray, 1985.
1431. Heinemann, William. Letter. Daily Chronicle 22 Nov 1898. ERP, Series 11A, Scrapbook 12. [Reports that ER insisted on pseudonymous publication of The Open Question, accepting reduced terms for the novel to do so.]
1432. Hloey, Frances Cashel. Letter. Freeman’s Journal (Dublin) 5 Apr 1904. ERP, Series 11 A, Scrapbook 13. [In response to the journal’s review of The Magnetic North, Hoey gives the biographical background of the novel and comments on ER and detail of the novel.]
1433. ‘Ibsen’s Latest Heroine: A Chat with Miss Elizabeth Robins.’ Sketch Vol. 1 No. 4 22 Feb 1893: 195.
1434. ‘Ibsen’s New Play [The Master Builder]: A Chat with Miss Robins and Mr Herbert Waring.’ Westminster Gazette 16 Feb 1893. ERP, Series 11 A, Scrapbook 7.
1435. Jackson, Holbrook. The Eighteen Nineties: A Review of Art and Ideas at the Close of the Nineteenth Century. 1913. Brighton: Harvester, 1976. [Mentions ER as one of ‘a group of women novelists who showed remarkable powers of psychological analysis’ and took up women’s issues.]
1436. Kenney, Annie. Memories of a Militant. London: Edward Arnold, 1924.
1437. Kunitz, S.J. and Howard Haycraft, ed. Twentieth Century Authors: A Bio-dictionary of Modern Literature. New York: H.H. Wilson, 1942.
1438. Lawrence, William. ‘Elizabeth Robins’s Book—The Talk of Two Continents.’ Zanesville Signal 8 Feb 1899. ERP, Series 11 A, Scrapbook 12.
1439. Leonard, John William, ed.-in-chief. Woman’s Who’s Who of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United States and Canada 1914-1915. 1907. Detroit: Gale Research, 1976.
1140. Livingston, A.L.W. ‘Not an Open Question and Should Not Be.’ Letter. New York Times Saturday Review, 15 Apr 1899: 243.
I 141. Lowndes, Mrs Belloc. ‘A Letter from London.’ Saturday Review of Literature 2 Jan 1932: 429. [Mentions ER is writing her reminiscences and praises The Magnetic North.]
1442. McCarthy, Desmond. The Court Theatre. London: A.H. Bullen, 1907.
1443. Mansfield, Katherine. The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield. Volume One 1903-1917, ed. Vincent O’Sullivan and Margaret Scott. Oxford: Clarendon, 1984. [High praise for ‘Come and Find Me!’ in a letter to Vera Beauchamp.]
1444. —. Journal of Katherine Mansfield, ed. J. Middleton Murry. London: Constable, 1962. [High praise for ‘Come and Find Me!’ in May 1908.]
See also No. 1066.
1445. Masefield, John. The Widow in the Bye Street. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1912. [Dwyer (No. 1525) suggests Anna is based on ER.]
1446. ‘“The Master Builder”: A Chat with Miss Elizabeth Robins and Mr Herbert Waring.’ St James’s Gazette 14 Feb 1893. Reprinted Madras Times 15 Mar 1893. ERP, Series 11A, Scrapbook 7.
1447. ‘Meeting at Albert Hall.’ Votes for Women 21 June 1912: 615. [Report of a speech by ER.l
1448. ‘Miss E. Robins.’ Queen 3 Oct 1891. ERP, Series 11A, Scrapbook 7.
1449. ‘Miss Elizabeth Robins (“C.E. Raimond”): A Study from the Life.’ West End 22 Feb 1899. ERP, Series 11A, Scrapbook 12.
1450. ‘Miss Robins and “The Master Builder.’” Queen 4 Mar 1893. ERP, Series 11 A, Scrapbook 7.
1451. ‘Miss Robins and “The Master Builder.’” Speaker 18 Feb 1893. ERP, Series 11A, Scrapbook 7.
1452. Morning Leader 24 June 1899. ERP, Series 11 A, Scrapbook 12. [Report of a speech by ER on ‘The Creation of Characters’ at the Women Writers’ Dinner. She spoke of the way the reading public falsely identifies a woman writer with her heroines.]
1453. ‘A National Theatre: Interview with Miss Robins.’ Daily Paper 4 Oct 1893. ERP, Series 11A, Scrapbook 7.
1454. Nicolson, Nigel, ed. Leave the Letters Till We’re Dead: The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Volume VI: 1936-1941. London: Chatto & Windus, 1980.
1455. Obituary. New York Times 9 May 1952: 23.
1456. Obituary. Times 9 May 1952: 8. Reprinted in Obituaries from the Times 1951-1960. Comp. Frank C. Roberts. Westport, CT: Meckler, c. 1979.
1457. Obituary. Variety 14 May 1952: 71.
1458. Obituary. Stage 15 May 1952: 11.
1459. Orme, Michael, [pseud. Alix Augusta Grein] J.T. Grein: The Story of a Pioneer 1862-1935. London: John Murray, 1936.
1460. Paine, Albert Bigelow. Mark Twain: A Biography. The Personal and lilerary Life of Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Vol. 2. New York: I larper, 1912.
1461. Pankhurst, Christabel. The Great Scourge and How to End It. 1913. Reprinted in Suffrage and the Pankhursts, ed. Jane Marcus. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1987.
1462. Pankhurst, E. Sylvia. The Suffragette Movement. London: Lovat Dickson and Thompson, 1931.
1463. The Suffragette: The History of the Women’s Militant Suffrage Movement 1905-1910. London: Gay & Hancock, 1911. [Attests to the veracity of The Convert.]
1464 ‘Pessimism in Fiction.’ Literature 59 (3 Dec 1898): 509-510. [A leading article on The Open Question probably by H.D. Traill.]
1465. Purdy, Richard Little and Michael Millgate, ed. Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy. Volume 2: 1893-1901. Oxford: Clarendon, 1980.
1466. —. Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy. Volume 3: 1902-1908. Oxford: Clarendon, 1982.
1467. —. Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy. Volume 5: 1914-1919. Oxford: Clarendon, 1985.
1168. Richards, Robert F. Concise Dictionary of American Literature. New York: Philosophical Library, [1955].
1169. Roach, Abby Maguire. ‘Elizabeth Robins.’ Library of Southern Literature. Vol. X, ed. Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris and Charles William Kent. Atlanta, GA: Martin & Hoyt, 1909.
1170. Roberts, W.J. ‘Elizabeth Robins: The Novelist, Actress and Suffragist, at Home.’ Book News Monthly 29 (1910/11): 235-243.
1171. Robertson, John M. ‘Weissmanism and Sociology.’ National Reformer: Radical Advocate and Freethought Journal 4 June 1893. ERP, Series 11 A, Scrapbook 7. [Comments on Alan’s Wife.]
1172. Salmon, Eric, ed. Granville Barker and His Correspondents: A Selection of Letters by Him and to Him. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1986.
1173. Sharp, Evelyn. Unfinished Adventure: Selected Reminiscences from an Englishwoman’s Life. London: John Lane, Bodley Head, 1933.
1174. Shaw, Bernard. ‘The Censorship of the Stage in England.’ North American Review CLXIX (Aug 1899): 251-262. [Shaw tells an anecdote about the licensing of Alan’s Wife and hints at ER’s authorship of the play.]
1475. —. Collected Letters. Vol. 1: 1874-1897, ed. Dan H. Laurence. London: Max Reinhardt, 1965.
1476. —. Collected Letters. Vol. 2: 1898-1910, ed. Dan H. Laurence. London: Max Reinhardt, 1972.
1477. —. Collected Letters. Vol. 3: 1911-1925, ed. Dan H. Laurence. London: Max Reinhardt, 1985.
1478. —. Collected Letters. Vol. 4: 1926-1950, ed. Dan H. Laurence. London: Max Reinhardt, 1988.
1479. —. Bernard Shaw’s Letters to Granville Barker, ed. C.B. Purdon. London: Phoenix, 1956.
1480. —. Our Theatres in the Nineties. 3 vols. London: Constable, 1932.
1481. —. The Perfect Wagnerite. New York: Brentano’s, 1929.
1482. —. The Quintessence of Ibsenism. London: W. Scott, 1891.
1483. —. Shaw on Theater, ed. EJ. West. New York: Hill & Wang, 1958.
1484. Shaw, Bernard and Mrs Patrick Campbell. Correspondence, ed. Alan Dent. London: Gollancz, 1952.
1485. Short, Ernest. Sixty Years of Theatre. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1951.
1486. S[pence], Efdward] F[ordham]. Our Stage and Its Critics. London: Methuen, 1910.
1487. ‘Supply of Teachers.’ Times 21 May 1925: 18. [Report of a speech by ER at Seaford House on the Central Employment Bureau for Women.]
1488. Table Talk 4 Feb 1899. ERP, Series 11A, Scrapbook 12. [On biographical elements in The Open Question.]
1489. Thorndike, Sybil. ‘Elizabeth Robins As I Knew Her.’ Listener 48 (1952): 108-109. [Obituary.]
1490. Times 11 Dec 1907: 12. Paragraph : ER left England yesterday to winter in Florida.
1491. Times 15 Oct 1913: 11. Paragraph: ER leaves tomorrow for Florida.
1492. Times 8 Mar 1926: 17. Paragraph: ER recovering from illness, cancels lecture on Mrs Gaskell at Bedford College.
1493. Times 13 Mar 1928: 14. Paragraph in early editions: ER to lecture at Royal Society of Arts on Ibsen and the Actress.
1494. Times 8 Aug 1940: 7. Paragraph: ER has arrived in the U.S.A., mail will be forwarded.
1495. Walkley, A.B. ‘The Drama.’ Speaker 20 May 1893. Extract reprinted in Alan’s Wife (No. 98). [In part a reply to No. 1401.]
1496. Waugh, Arthur. ‘Miss Elizabeth Robins’ First Story.’ Letter. Time and Tide 1 (1920): 40.
1497. ‘We Dare Not Wait.’ Votes for Women 1 Dec 1911: 149. [Report of a speech by ER at the London Pavilion, Picadilly Circus.]
1498. Weintraub, Stanley, ed. Bernard Shaw: The Diaries 1885-1897 with early autobiographical notebooks and diaries, and an abortive 1917 diary. Vol. II. University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 1986.
1499. ‘What Her Body and Soul Permit.’ Woman’s Signal 2.40 (4 Oct 1894): 1. [Takes issue with some of the implications of George Mandeville’s Husband.]
1500. Who Was Who 1951-1960. Vol. V. London: Adam & Charles Black, 1961.
1501. Who Was Who in Literature 1906-1913. 2 vols. Detroit: Gale, 1979.
1502. Who Was Who in the Theatre 1912-1976: a Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, … of the English-speaking Theatre. 4 vols. Detroit: Gale, c. 1978. [Comp, from Who’s Who in the Theatre Vols 1-15, 1912-1972.]
1503. Wilberforce, Octavia. Backsettown and Elizabeth Robins. Brighton: privately printed, 1952. [Includes Sybil Thorndike’s obituary (No. 1473). Not seen. I have seen Backsettown: Elizabeth Robins & Octavia Wilberforce. By Octavia Wilberforce, Sybil Thorndike and Leonard Woolf. The publishing details of this item are incorrect. This item includes Leonard Woolf’s obituary for Octavia Wilberforce. She died in 1963; the item is dated 1952.]
1504. Wilde, Oscar. Letters, ed. Rupert Hart-Davis. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1962.
1505. Woolf, Leonard. The Journey Not the Arrival Matters. New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1970.
1506. Wyant, G.G. ‘Personal Portraits [Elizabeth Robins].’ Bookman (New York) v. 37 July 1913: 512-516.
1507. Yorick. ‘Topical Interviews. No. 260—Miss Elizabeth Robins.’ Topical Times 25 July 1891. ERP, Series 11A, Scrapbook 7.
ER was regularly listed in Who’s Who in America during her lifetime. J.P. Wearing lists contemporary references to her in his American and British Theatrical Biography: A Directory. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1979.