The Mothers is a 1915 one-act written by the English women's rights activist Edith Ellis and is set in Cornwall. The play premiered at the Little Theatre in Chicago and it is one of only three plays that she has written.[1][2] It is the first British play that clearly features female homoeroticism.[3]
| The Mothers | |
|---|---|
| Written by | Edith Ellis |
| Date premiered | 1915 |
| Original language | English |
| Setting | Cornwall |
Jill Davis, in a 1991 article published in Women: A Cultural Review, stated that it is the earliest play that she has come across that has a lesbian representation of a lesbian experience.[4]
References
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- ^ Alan Sinfield (1999). Out on Stage: Lesbian and Gay Theatre in the Twentieth Century. Yale University Press. p. 58. ISBN 978-0-300-08102-2.
- ^ France, Rachel (1979). A Century Of Plays By American Women. Richards Rosen Press, Inc. p. 42. ISBN 0823904725.
- ^ Martin Banham (7 March 1996). The Cambridge Paperback Guide to Theatre. Cambridge University Press. p. 213. ISBN 978-0-521-44654-9.
- ^ Davis, Jill (1991). "'This be different'—the lesbian drama of Mrs Havelock Ellis". Women: A Cultural Review. 2 (2): 134–148. doi:10.1080/09574049108578074.
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