Inez Bensusan

Inez Bensusan
Portrait, 1924 by Cecil William Rea
Born 1871
Sydney
Died 1967
Nationality Australian
Known for Feminist

Inez Bensusan (1871–1967) was an Australian born Jewish actor, playwright and suffragette in the UK. She was a leader of the Actresses' Franchise League and the Jewish League for Woman Suffrage.

Life

Bensusan was born in Sydney in 1871 to Samuel Levy Bensusan. Her family were wealthy and in 1893 she moved to England. She became a member of Emmeline Pankhurst's Women's Social and Political Union and in 1907 she was one of the founder members of the Actresses' Franchise League.[1] She wrote three one-act plays for the League and she was head of their play department.[2]

In 1911 the suffragists were objecting to the census. As part their protest The Apple was performed at one o'clock in the morning. This was the second time that play was performed.[2]

The following year she was on the executive committee of the Jewish League for Woman Suffrage.

In December 1913 she formed a women's theatre troupe at the Coronet Theatre. The group had one successful season but the project was interrupted by the outbreak of war. Her Women's Theatre Company went on to entertain the army of Occupation in Cologne.[3]

In 1946 she co-founded the House of Arts in Chiswick.[3]

Film roles

  • The Grit of a Jew (1917)
  • Adam Bede (1918)[4]

Works

  • The Apple[2] (1909)[5]
  • Perfect Ladies (1909)
  • Nobody's Sweetheart (1911)
  • The Prodigal Passes (1914)
  • The Singer of the Veldt
  • True Womanhood (a film) (1911).

References

  1. ↑ "Inez Bensusan". Spartacus Educational. Retrieved 2017-11-22.
  2. 1 2 3 "Inez Bensusan © Orlando Project". orlando.cambridge.org. Retrieved 2017-11-22.
  3. 1 2 "SAPDD Biographies - Inez Bensusan". SAPDD.
  4. ↑ "SAPDD Biographies". The Suffragettes. Retrieved 2017-11-22.
  5. ↑ Inez Bensusan (1909). The Apple. An Episode of To-day in One Act. Actresses' Franchise League.
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