Cockin, Katharine. “Cicely Hamilton’s Warriors: dramatic reinventions of militancy in the British women’s suffrage movement”. Women’s History Review, Vol.
14
, No. 3/4, pp. 527-42. 534
Ellen Terry
Standard Name: Terry, Ellen
Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Christopher St John | Ellen Terry
was in the cast. |
| Textual Production | Edith Craig | EC
, with Christopher St John
, contributed biographical chapters, a preface, and notes to a new edition of Ellen Terry
's Memoirs. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. Terry, Ellen. “Preface; Biographical Chapters”. Ellen Terry’s Memoirs, edited by Edith Craig and Christopher St John, Benjamin Blom, pp. v - xi; 279. iii, 362 |
| Textual Production | Edith Craig | EC
's articles on theatre include Producing a Play in Munsey's Magazine (June 1907) and Notes on the Costumes in The Kensington (undated). Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell. 233 |
| Textual Production | Clemence Dane | Thorndike and her husband Lewis Casson
, who had been in other plays by CD
, both appeared in this drama set in a home for the elderly. The character of Blanche Carroll was based... |
| Textual Features | Virginia Woolf | Freshwater was the name of Julia Margaret Cameron
's estate on the Isle of Wight, where Anne Thackeray Ritchie
had a cottage. The Stephen children had stayed there. Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus. 75-6 |
| Textual Features | Cicely Hamilton | The pageant required more than fifty actresses, only three of whom had speaking parts, to portray famous women from history (not all of them remembered today). In the initial, Scala production, the only speaking role... |
| Residence | Christopher St John | CSJ
and Edith Craig
moved to Priest's House, Smallhythe Place, Tenterden, Kent, on the property of Craig's mother
's farm. Auerbach, Nina. Ellen Terry: Player in Her Time. W.W. Norton. 480 Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell. 229 |
| Residence | Edith Craig | Ellen Terry
sent her daughter EC
, with Christopher St John
, to bid on a countryside property, Smallhythe Place, in Smallhythe, Kent, for the three of them to share as a summer home. Holledge, Julie. Innocent Flowers: Women in the Edwardian Theatre. Virago. 118 National Trust Handbook for Members and Visitors: March 1997 to March 1998. National Trust. 222 |
| Reception | John Oliver Hobbes | |
| Publishing | Charlotte O'Conor Eccles | One sub-editing job on a projected new magazine (for which she was to be paid five pounds a month) was to include occasional interviewing of celebrated women like Ellen Terry
and articles on successful industrialists... |
| Author summary | Edith Craig | EC
was primarily a theatre practitioner, known chiefly for her Pioneer Players
, the women's theatre company she founded in 1911. Her literary output was scant. She published a handful of articles on stagecraft, and... |
| politics | Christopher St John | After seeing police surround a suffrage demonstration outside a memorial service for Henry Irving
(one of Ellen Terry
's lovers), CSJ
became a suffragist and an active campaigner. Auerbach, Nina. Ellen Terry: Player in Her Time. W.W. Norton. 181 Holledge, Julie. Innocent Flowers: Women in the Edwardian Theatre. Virago. 121 |
| Performance of text | John Oliver Hobbes | In the same year JOH
and Moore
also collaborated on the one-act comedy Journeys End in Lovers' Meeting (titled from Shakespeare
), which was performed in June 1895 (according to her father's memoir) Richards, John Morgan, and John Oliver Hobbes. “Pearl Richards Craigie: Biographical Sketch by her Father”. The Life of John Oliver Hobbes, J. Murray. 23 |
| Performance of text | Edith Craig | The event took place at the Palace Theatre
in London. EC
's mother, Ellen Terry
, played the role of the nursery-rhyme old woman who lived in a shoe. Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell. 138 |
| Performance of text | Clemence Dane | CD
's play Ellen Terry in the Theatre was performed at the Barn Theatre
on Christopher St John
's property at Smallhythe, Kent, for the Ellen Terry
anniversary celebration. Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell. 177 |
Timeline
May 1856: Ellen Terry made her theatrical debut at...
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May 1856
Ellen Terry
made her theatrical debut at the Princess's Theatre
, watched by an audience which included Queen Victoria
and Prince Albert
.
20 February 1864: Painter George Frederic Watts married the...
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20 February 1864
Painter George Frederic Watts
married the young stage-star Ellen Terry
, thirty years his junior.
1867-1870: During this period, photographer Julia Margaret...
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1867-1870
During this period, photographer Julia Margaret Cameron
took some of her best known portraits of famous men.
26 December 1867: Ellen Terry and Henry Irving made the first...
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26 December 1867
Ellen Terry
and Henry Irving
made the first of many stage appearances together when they played opposite one another in Katherine and Petruchio (better known as The Taming of the Shrew) at the new...
10 October 1868: Actress Ellen Terry began living out of wedlock...
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10 October 1868
Actress Ellen Terry
began living out of wedlock with Edward Godwin
.
28 February 1874: Ellen Terry returned to the stage in The...
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28 February 1874
Ellen Terry
returned to the stage in The Wandering Heir.
April 1875: Ellen Terry presented the character of Portia...
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April 1875
Ellen Terry
presented the character of Portia in an unsuccessful production of The Merchant of Veniceat the Prince of Wales Theatre
; the role became synonymous with her name.
30 December 1878: Henry Irving and Ellen Terry began their...
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30 December 1878
Henry Irving
and Ellen Terry
began their successful stage partnership at the Lyceum Theatre
in London by starring opposite one another in Hamlet.
1 November 1879: The Lyceum Theatre produced a successful...
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1 November 1879
The Lyceum Theatre produced a successful revision of The Merchant of Venice starring Henry Irving
and Ellen Terry
.
1885: Breaking with established department store...
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1885
Breaking with established department store practice, Harrods
began to offer credit to select customers.
February 1891: Theatre producer and critic J. T. Grein founded...
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February 1891
Theatre producer and critic J. T. Grein
founded the Independent Theatre Society
in London to promote literary rather than commercial plays, and the new drama in particular.
10 December 1908: The inaugural meeting of the Actresses' Franchise...
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10 December 1908
The inaugural meeting of the Actresses' Franchise League
was held at the Criterion Restaurant in London.
June 1911: Ellen Terry lectured on the topic of Shakespeare's...
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June 1911
Ellen Terry
lectured on the topic of Shakespeare
's Triumphant Women, under the auspices of the Pioneer Players
.
22 June 1925: The Film Society was incorporated in London,...
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22 June 1925
The Film Society
was incorporated in London, where it operated until 1939.
November 1925: Actress Ellen Terry gave her final stage...
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November 1925
Actress Ellen Terry
gave her final stage performance in Walter de la Mare
's Crossings at the Lyric Theatre
in Hammersmith near London.
Texts
Terry, Ellen. “Preface; Biographical Chapters”. Ellen Terry’s Memoirs, edited by Edith Craig and Christopher St John, Benjamin Blom, 1969, pp. v - xi; 279.