Suzanne R. Day

Suzanne R. Day

From the cast of 1901 production of The Mikado, Cork
Born Suzanne Rouvier Day
24 April 1876
Cork, Ireland
Died 26 May 1964
London
Nationality Irish
Occupation writer

Suzanne Rouvier Day (1876–1964) was an Irish feminist, novelist and playwright. She founded the Munster Women's Franchise League, was one of Cork's first women poor-law guardians and served a support role in both World Wars.

Biography

Day was born in Cork, Ireland in 1876 to Robert and Rebecca Day. Her father Robert ran a Saddler and Ironmonger business and was a well known antiquarian and photographer.[1] She was active as a suffragette founding the Munster Women's Franchise League and as a member of the Irishwomen's Suffrage Federation. In 1911 she became one of Cork's first women poor-law guardians which led to her first novel.[2] From 1913 to 1917 she wrote three plays for the Abbey Theatre in collaboration with Geraldine Cummins, the most successful of which was the comedy Fox and Geese (1917).[3][4] Day worked as a nurse on the French front during the First World War. She worked as a member of the fire service in London during the Second World War. She lived in Cork, France and London. She was living in London when she died.[3][5]

The work of Suzanne R. Day and Geraldine Cummins has been described as a mixture of paganism and melodrama and has been suggested as a precursor to John B. Keane.[6]

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Notes

  1. "Census return 1901".
  2. "(Source: Dictionary of Irish Biography, and Brendan Goggin)".
  3. 1 2 Alexander G. Gonzalez, Irish Women Writers: An A-To-Z Guide, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2006, pp.76–78.
  4. "Oxford Biography".
  5. Lorna Sage; Germaine Greer; Elaine Showalter (1999). The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English. Cambridge University Press. p. 696.
  6. "Exeunt Magazine:Feminism and Irish Theatre".


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