The Mothers (play) explained

The Mothers
Setting:	Cornwall
Premiere:	1915
Orig Lang:	English

The Mothers is a 1915 one-act written by the English women's rights activist Edith Ellis and is set in Cornwall. The play premiered at the Little Theatre in Chicago and it is one of only three plays that she has written.^{[1] [2]} It is the first British play that clearly features female homoeroticism.^[3]

Jill Davis, in a 1991 article published in Women: A Cultural Review, stated that it is the earliest play that she has come across that has a lesbian representation of a lesbian experience.^[4]

Notes and References

1. Book: Alan Sinfield. Alan Sinfield. Out on Stage: Lesbian and Gay Theatre in the Twentieth Century. 1999. Yale University Press. 978-0-300-08102-2. 58.
2. Book: France, Rachel . 1979 . A Century Of Plays By American Women . Richards Rosen Press, Inc. . 42 . 0823904725 . registration .
3. Book: Martin Banham. The Cambridge Paperback Guide to Theatre. 7 March 1996. Cambridge University Press. 978-0-521-44654-9. 213.
4. Davis . Jill . 1991 . 'This be different'—the lesbian drama of Mrs Havelock Ellis . Women: A Cultural Review . 2 . 2 . 134–148 . 10.1080/09574049108578074 .