Cicely Mary Hamilton, dramatist, actress, and worker for the feminist cause in Britain before and after World War I, wrote a great deal for the stage in the method of her time. Little endures from her work now except three undervalued plays, one of which was produced at the beginning of her career as a dramatist; and one that was produced rather more than midway (just after the war had ended); and a third, though it had been written some time before, which was produced when she was fifty-three. She had begun her professional life as a journalist and later spent twelve years divided between free-lance journalism and acting. Her most lasting work, recently reprinted, remains the 1909 feminist polemic, Marriage as a Trade, in which she inveighed against "the largely compulsory character of that institution--as far as one-half of humanity is concerned--the sweated trade element in it.... I...