In this biography Edith Craig is at last taken out of the shadows cast by her famous relatives - her mother Ellen Terry and her brother Edward Gordon Craig. As a woman and as a lesbian, Edith Craig found that her work in theatre and film received uneven critical attention, sometimes being ignored and frequently undervalued.

Her achievements as an actress, costume designer, stage director and, in her later years, as pageant organizer are assessed here in detail for the first time, fifty years after her death, with new insights from material in the Edith Craig Archive.