Ellen Terry

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...

After her dramatic training Daisy Jervis worked on the stage, but with no real success. She gave a concert on her own, had one job as a dancer (at two pounds a week), lost another...

From 1886, when she published her first novel, A Romance of Two Worlds, onward, MC produced books at great speed. She was an instant success, and throughout her life she sold approximately 100,000 books...

Thereafter she stayed with Covent Garden for her major works. She was paid £100 to delay publishing this play, presumably to keep the public's appetite on edge. It appeared with a dedication to...

The Critical called The Belle's Stratagemthe best dramatic production of a female pen which has appeared since the days of Centlivre , to whom Mrs. Cowley is at least equal in fable and character...

The Barn Theatre , founded by EC , held its first memorial performance in honour of her mother, actress Ellen Terry .

EC , with Christopher St John , contributed biographical chapters, a preface, and notes to a new edition of Ellen Terry 's Memoirs.

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...

EC 's mother, the well-known actress Ellen Terry , had already, before Edith was born, been married to the painter G. F. Watts for less than a year from 1864, and was not divorced. She...

After her mother's death, EC retired to her village home. There she established the Barn Theatre , a converted barn on the grounds of Smallhythe Place which would host an annual dramatic festival in honour...

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. The play was never...

EC 's articles on theatre include Producing a Play in Munsey's Magazine (June 1907) and Notes on the Costumes in The Kensington (undated). An essay entitled Ellen Terry and Henry Irving (28 June 1939)...

EC , aged eight, first appeared on stage in a walk-on role for a performance of Olivia at the Court Theatre ; her mother, Ellen Terry , and famous actor Henry Irving played the leads.

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.

Actress Ellen Terry , EC 's mother, died at home at Smallhythe Place, Smallhythe, Kent.