25 Facts About Elizabeth Robins

Elizabeth Robins was an actress, playwright, novelist, and suffragette.

Elizabeth Robins, the first child of Charles Robins and Hannah Crow, was born in Louisville, Kentucky.

Elizabeth Robins's father was a follower of Robert Owen and held progressive political views.

Elizabeth Robins wanted her to attend Vassar College and study medicine.

At the age of fourteen, Elizabeth Robins saw her first professional play which ignited her desire to pursue an acting career.

Elizabeth Robins soon grew bored and irritated playing "wretched, small character parts" and in 1883 joined the Boston Museum stock company.

At a social gathering during her first week in England, Elizabeth Robins met Oscar Wilde.

Early in her time in London, Elizabeth Robins became enamored with the plays of Henrik Ibsen.

In 1902, Elizabeth Robins played Lucrezia in Stephen Phillips's Paolo and Francesca at the St James's Theatre, London.

Elizabeth Robins realised her income from acting was not stable enough to support her fully.

Elizabeth Robins's experiences searching for her brother led her to write her novels, Magnetic North and Come and Find Me.

Elizabeth Robins explained her use of a pseudonym as a means of keeping her acting and writing careers separate but gave it up when the media reported that Robins and Raimond were the same.

Elizabeth Robins enjoyed a long career as a fiction and nonfiction writer.

Elizabeth Robins first attended "open-air meetings of the suffrage union" when the Women's Social and Political Union moved its headquarters from Manchester to London in 1906.

Elizabeth Robins became a member of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, as well as the Women's Social and Political Union, although she broke with the WSPU over its increasing use of violent militancy.

Elizabeth Robins remained a strong advocate of women's rights and used her skills as a public speaker and writer on behalf of the cause.

Elizabeth Robins collected and edited speeches, lectures, and articles dealing with the women's movement, some of which had never previously appeared in print.

Frederick Pethick-Lawrence, 1st Baron Pethick-Lawrence credited Elizabeth Robins with explaining to him the difference between a suffragette and a suffragist.

Elizabeth Robins was involved in the campaign to allow women to enter the House of Lords.

Elizabeth Robins was a supporter of women's rights and in his will made arrangements for Margaret to inherit his title.

Elizabeth Robins wrote numerous articles on the subject, but the House of Lords refused to change its decision.

Elizabeth Robins admitted to a deep attraction to her close friend, the highly respected literary critic and fellow Ibsen scholar, William Archer.

In 1900 Elizabeth Robins traveled alone to the gold rush camps of Alaska in search of her favorite brother Raymond Elizabeth Robins, whom she feared was lost in the Yukon.

Elizabeth Robins shared his life in wild and lawless Alaska throughout the summer of 1900.

Elizabeth Robins's best selling book, The Magnetic North, is an account of her experiences, as is The Alaska-Klondike Diary of Elizabeth Robins.