MS 685 01 20
Reference code
MS 685 01 20
Title
E.A. Craig collection: Papers relating to Edy Craig
Level
Series
Administrative / Biographical history
Edith ‘Edy’ Craig (1869–1947), was the daughter of Ellen Terry and Edward Godwin and older sister of Edward Gordon Craig. She was a costume designer and theatre director. Like Gordon Craig, she grew up surrounded by the theatre and worked for the Lyceum Theatre Company, designing costumes and acting under the stage name of Ailsa Craig, touring America in 1895 and 1907.
With financial backing from her mother, she started a business, Edith Craig & Co., producing costumes for several London theatre productions.
She was also active in the women’s suffrage movement.
With financial backing from her mother, she started a business, Edith Craig & Co., producing costumes for several London theatre productions.
She was also active in the women’s suffrage movement.
Date
1870s-1989
Extent & medium
11 files
Content description
This series contain various papers relating to Edy Craig’s life and her work. In addition to personal papers, it includes various studies about her, one by her brother Edward Gordon Craig.
Arrangement
The files were loose amongst the collection and have been catalogued in chronological order.
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- E.A. Craig collection: Photographs of Edy Craig, MS 685 01 20 01, (1870s-1940s)
- E.A. Craig collection: Edith Craig & Co..., headed balance sheets and business card, MS 685 01 20 02, (1893-1918)
- E.A. Craig collection: Photocopy of a printed announcement by Edith Craig concerning her dress business, MS 685 01 20 03, (1901)
- E.A. Craig collection: Notes from Edward Gordon Craig to Edy Craig regarding her costume business, MS 685 01 20 04, (1913)
- E.A. Craig collection: Copy of ‘The Pioneer Players, Third Annual Report’, MS 685 01 20 05, (1913-1914)
- E.A. Craig collection: A copy of the programme for a performance of ‘Romeo and Juliet’ at the Everyman Theatre, MS 685 01 20 06, (1920)
- E.A. Craig collection: Photocopy of one of Edy Craig’s notebooks, MS 685 01 20 07, (n.d.)
- E.A. Craig collection: Photocopies of letters from Nelly Craig to Edy Craig, MS 685 01 20 08, (1922-1930)
- E.A. Craig collection: A copy of the programme for The Masses Guild production of ‘Singing – Jailbirds’ by Upton Sinclair, MS 685 01 20 09, (1930)
- E.A. Craig collection: Papers relating to Edward Gordon Craig’s reminisces about his sister Edith Craig in ‘Edy: Recollections of Edith Craig’ Adlard, Eleanor, ed. (1949), MS 685 01 20 10, (1947-1948)
- E.A. Craig collection: Typescript of lecture on Edy Craig, written by Christine Dymkowski, MS 685 01 20 11, (1989)