Written in 1908 by British suffragist Cicely Hamilton, Diana of Dobson’s explores the troubles and stresses experienced by a young woman who has no family and is struggling to earn a living while maintaining her own ideals about happiness, dignity and identity.

Set in the Edwardian Era of her own day, Hamilton’s engaging play offers not only an insightful appraisal of the pressures brought to bear upon single, working-class women of that time, but also an unrelentingly critical appraisal of the Edwardian Era’s rigidity with respect to issues of gender and class.