Royal Academy of Dramatic Art

At Surbiton she disliked the educational regime of the headmistress, Miss Proctor, more than any she had known. She could bear the English literature, foreign languages, and religious instruction (which, as before, she converted into...

MB 's first dramatic writing was for a group in the amateur theatre movement with which much of her career was linked: the Welwyn Folk Players . She directed for them, and wrote a three-act...

HB 's ambition to go on the stage caused her to write for advice to Ellen Terry , and then appeal for help to the admiring Sir Thomas Lipton , who offered to pay her...

HB claims that she wrote her first poem, without help, at seven. It began: A little angel walked this earth. From then on she was always scribbling. At about nine she had an...

When acting appeared to be going nowhere, Marguerite Jervis wrote an article entitled A Day at the Academy of Dramatic Art, which she submitted in person (wearing a white muslin frock with blue sash...