Editing Cicely Hamilton (section)

{{Short description|English actress, writer and suffragist (1872–1952)}}
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| caption            = Cicely Hamilton, c. 1907
| birth_name         = Cicely Mary Hammill
| birth_date         = 15 June 1872
| birth_place        = [[Paddington]], London, England
| death_date         = {{death-date and age|6 December 1952|15 June 1872}}
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| known_for          = Suffragette, event organiser
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| occupation         = Actor, playwright, novelist
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'''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 theatre|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.<ref>[https://www.jstor.org/stable/3346832?Search=yes&resultItemClick=true&&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoAdvancedSearch%3Ff5%3Dall%26amp%3Bc4%3DAND%26amp%3Bq4%3D%26amp%3Bgroup%3Dnone%26amp%3Bc6%3DAND%26amp%3Bbk%3Don%26amp%3Bf2%3Dall%26amp%3Bc1%3DAND%26amp%3Bla%3D%26amp%3Bf0%3Dall%26amp%3Bms%3Don%26amp%3Bq5%3D%26amp%3Bc3%3DAND%26amp%3Bq3%3D%26amp%3Bpm%3Don%26amp%3Bc5%3DAND%26amp%3Bq6%3D%26amp%3Bwc%3Don%26amp%3Bisbn%3D%26amp%3Bf3%3Dall%26amp%3Bq2%3D%26amp%3Bsd%3D%26amp%3Bf4%3Dall%26amp%3Bq0%3Dhow%2Bthe%2Bvote%2Bwas%2Bwon%26amp%3Bacc%3Don%26amp%3Bar%3Don%26amp%3Bpt%3D%26amp%3Bed%3D%26amp%3Bc2%3DAND%26amp%3Bf6%3Dall%26amp%3Bq1%3Dcicely%2Bhamilton%26amp%3Bf1%3Dall&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents "Cicely Hamilton, Independent Feminist"], ''Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Vol 11'' No. 2/3 1990</ref><ref name="ls">Lisa Shariari, "Hamilton, Cicely" in Faye Hammill, Ashlie Sponenberg and Esme Miskimmin (ed.), ''Encyclopedia of British Women's Writing, 1900-1950''. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. {{ISBN|9781403916921}} (pp. 105-6)</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2014-10-21|title=A Pageant of Great Women: The Suffragettes and Performance|url=https://womenslibrary.org.uk/event/katharine-cockin-a-pageant-of-great-women/|access-date=2021-08-26|website=Glasgow Women's Library|language=en-US}}</ref>"<ref>{{Cite book|last=Looser|first=Devoney|title=The Making of Jane Austen|location=Baltimore, MD|publisher=[[Johns Hopkins University Press]]|year=2017|page=169|isbn=978-1421422824}}</ref>