Cicely HamiltonCicely Hamilton (1892-1952) was an English atress, playwright and activist. Her first job was as a pupil-teacher; disliking it, she joined a touring company as an actress. She then turned to playwriting and her first play, The Traveller Returns, was performed in 1906. Her next, Diana of Dobsons (1908), was very successful. In 1908 she joined the Women's Freedom League and wrote two propaganda plays, How the Vote Was Won (1909) and A Pageant of Great Women (1909). She was a founder member of the Actresses' Franchise League and of the Women Writers' Suffrage League. During the First World War she nursed soldiers at the Battle of the Somme and in 1917 was asked to form a repertory company to perform plays for the Allied troops on the Western Front. After the war she became a freelance journalist. She wrote a number of books, including her autobiography, Life Errant, which was published in 1935. Read More Read Less