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Christopher St. John was born on October 24th, 1871. They were born Christabel Gertrude Marshall. She lived with in a ménage à trois with Terry’s daughter, Edith, and artist Clare Atwood. When Craig became briefly engaged to Martin Shaw, St. John was beside themselves with anguish. Their relationship began in 1903, and carried on until Craig’s death on March 24th, 1985. After Edith’s death, St. John burned a significant collection of Craig’s letters, who served as manager to her mother. St. John referred to themself as Terry’s “literary henchman”, serving as editor to some of her works or, in the case of Terry’s Four Lectures on Shakespeare, her transcriber. St. John claims in the introduction to Four Lectures that Terry would “invoke [their] services on all occasions when she had to write something for publication, or make a speech, or give an interview” (St. John 8). St. John also described their relationship as more apprentice and master craftsman. Although Terry never saw herself as a writer, St. John claimed that that they learned more about the art of writing from Terry than from anyone else. St. John dedicated much of their life to the suffragist movement, creating feminist plays that would be performed in order to raise awareness for women’s rights.