Name/TitleProgramme: Pageants and Pioneers
About this objectSouvenir programme for 'Pageants and Pioneers' held in Middleton Hall, University of Hull, on Saturday 7th May 2011, 6:30 pm. The schedule is listed as follows:
6:30 pm: 'Suffragette' produced by Hull College
7:30 - 8:45 pm: A Dinner Party for A Pageant of Great Women: a buffet and drinks reception in the Art Cafe
9:00 pm: 'A Pageant of Great Women' by Cicely Hamilton; produced and directed by Anna Birch, Fragments and Monuments
MakerUniversity of Hull
Date Made2011
Period2010s
Place MadeEngland, Hull
Medium and MaterialsOrganic, paper
Inscription and MarksSchedule page, below text, in black ink: Anna Birch
MeasurementsH: 208 x W: 125 mm
Subject and Association KeywordsDrama, theatre
Subject and Association KeywordsPerformance art
Subject and Association KeywordsFeminism, feminist movement
Subject and Association Keywordswomen's suffrage, right to vote
Subject and Association Descriptionhttps://mayaproductions.co.uk/about-maya/anna-birch:
Anna combines her professional expertise as a theatre and film director with her scholarly research and activism. Moving beyond the theatre building, she has created a ‘living monuments’ performance and film methodology to both search out and reveal hidden and often neglected feminist biographies and her-stories. She researched her method through site-specific performance and films about the life of early feminist Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) showing how this use of multimedia provides an essential link to the performativity of astonishing feminist achievements. Fragments & Monuments performance and film company launched a brand new Wollstonecraft Walks app which includes an archive of our performance, film, outdoor screenings, gallery installations and book publishing since 2000. The archive is all about our heroine and neighbour, the eighteenth-century human rights activist Mary Wollstonecraft.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicely_Hamilton:
Cicely Mary Hamilton (née Hammill; 15 June 1872 – 6 December 1952) was an English actress, writer, journalist, suffragist and feminist, part of the struggle for women's suffrage in the United Kingdom. She is now best known for the feminist play How the Vote was Won, which sees a male anti-suffragist change his mind when the women in his life go on strike. She was also the author of one of the most frequently performed suffrage plays, A Pageant of Great Women (1909), which featured the character of Jane Austen as one of its "Learned Women." In 1908 she and Bessie Hatton founded the Women Writers' Suffrage League. This grew to around 400 members, including Ivy Compton-Burnett, Sarah Grand, Violet Hunt, Marie Belloc Lowndes, Alice Meynell, Olive Schreiner, Evelyn Sharp, May Sinclair and Margaret L. Woods. It produced campaigning literature, written by Sinclair amongst others, and recruited many prominent male supporters.
Named CollectionGlasgow Women's Library
Object TypeProgramme
Object numberGWL-2025-75-4-1
Copyright LicenceAll rights reserved