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Winifred Ashton CBE, better known by the pseudonym Clemence Dane (21 February 1888 – 28 March 1965), was an English novelist and playwright . Life and career. After completing her education, Dane went to Switzerland to work as a French tutor, but returned home after a year. She studied art in London and Germany.
Clemence Dane is the ‘invisible woman’ of British 20th century culture: a prolific and popular writer and artist, described by her great friend Noel Coward as ‘a wonderful unique mixture of artist, writer, games mistress, poet and egomaniac.’
Thursday 6-Friday 7 October 2022: Institute of English Studies, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU. Clemence Dane’s circle congregated in her flat in Covent Garden from the 1920s to the 1940s and bridged the worlds of theatre, publishing and film.
Clemence Dane. Image courtesy of the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress. ‘Clemence Dane’ was the pseudonym of Winifred Ashton, an English playwright and novelist with a celebrity status in London when she joined Time and Tide ’s pages in the early 1920s.
Clemence Dane is the ‘invisible woman’ of British 20th century culture. Between the First and Second World Wars, she was Britain’s most influential, versatile and successful female writer and arguably the most complete and versatile female creative force: novelist, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, sculptor, painter, broadcaster ...
The figure now better known as Clemence Dane—who was born Winifred Ashton in 1888 and who died in 1965—is not usually found in canonical works on British literature. However, during her lifetime Da...
This feminist investigation of the works of Clemence Dane joins the growing body of research into the relationship of female-authored texts to the ideology and cultural hegemony of...
