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Bessie Hatton

Portrait of Bessie Hatton by Herbert Rose Barraud , 1909. Playbill from 1898 performance of Hatton's The Prince and the Pauper Bessie Lyle Hatton (22 November 1867 – 25 March 19...

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Portrait of Bessie Hatton by Herbert Rose Barraud, 1909.
Playbill from 1898 performance of Hatton's The Prince and the Pauper

Bessie Lyle Hatton (22 November 1867 – 25 March 1964) was an English actress, playwright, journalist, and feminist, and took part in the struggle for women's suffrage in the United Kingdom.

Life

Hatton was born on 22 November 1867 in Claines, Worcestershire. Her father was Joseph Hatton, a novelist and journalist, and her mother was Louisa Johnson, her elder brother was explorer Frank Hatton. She was educated at a convent school in Ardennes and at Bedford College, London, however she left college to join Frank Benson's company who were performing Shakespeare.[1] She performed in Judah at the Shaftesbury Theatre with Gertrude Warden in 1890.[2]

On the advice of her father and despite her concerns that it might interfere with her acting career,[1] Hatton authored several popular works of fiction, including The Village of Youth and Other Fairytales (1895)[3] and her play Before Sunrise.[4] This play was staged at the Royal Albert Hall on 11 December 1909 for the Women's Freedom League.[5]

In June 1908 she and fellow actress and writer Cicely Mary Hamilton founded the Women Writers' Suffrage League.[6] The organisation was open to both men and women, and each affiliation. Hatton was the organising secretary, took part in events, and organised entertainment for the suffrage meetings.[1]

When World War I broke out, The Women Writers Suffrage League helped establish a library at Endell Street Military Hospital, and helped organise recreation at the hospital. Hatton never married. She died on 25 March 1964.[1]

References

  1. 1234Hughes-Johnson, Alexandra (12 September 2019). "Hatton, Bessie Lyle (1867–1964)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.013.369196. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
  2. ↑ "Teatro Shaftesbury". Morning Post . 30 de junio de 1890. pág. 6. 
  3. ↑ Elizabeth, Crawford (2001). El movimiento sufragista femenino : una guía de referencia, 1866-1928 . Londres: Routledge. págs. 278-279 . ISBN   9780415239264OCLC 44914288​​ 
  4. ↑ Bessie Hatton (1909). Antes del amanecer . Edición privada.
  5. ↑ Votos para las mujeres y otras obras de teatro . Croft, Susan, 1958-, St. John, Christopher (Christopher Marie), Robins, Elizabeth, 1862-1952, Nightingale, Helen M., Chapin, Alice, Hamilton, Cicely, 1872-1952. Twickenham: Aurora Metro Press. 2009. pág. 221. ISBN  9781906582012OCLC 268792352​​ {{cite book}}: CS1 mantenimiento: otros ( enlace )
  6. ↑ Robins, Elizabeth (1913). Way Stations . Hodder and Stoughton. p. 106. OCLC 654476659. Recuperado el 8 de marzo de 2018. métodos propios de los escritores .  

Anna Andes analiza «Antes del amanecer» en su ensayo «Nuevas mujeres emergentes en el drama sufragista: imaginando un yo autónomo» (http://www.thelatchkey.org/Latchkey6/essay/Andes.htm) en The Latchkey: Journal of New Women Studies.