Talented and beautiful, intelligent and charismatic, Elizabeth Robins was one of the foremost actresses of her day. She began her career on the American stage but settled in late nineteenth-century London wgere age became renowned for her pioneering portrayals of the leading characters in Ibsen's plays.

This versatile woman was also a playwright whose drama VOTES FOR WOMEN! inaugrated suffrage theatre. A leading suffragette, she worked closely with the Pankhursts, remaining an active feminist for the rest of her life.