Ellen Terry

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.

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...

After the success of her Keynotes, GE became acquainted with the literary and intellectual world. Among her new acquaintances she expressed admiration for Havelock Ellis but called W. B. Yeats a poseur.

Music was very important to EBO (though she says she had inexplicably little talent), and she gives one of the five books of her memoirs to her musical life. She heard Edvard Grieg conducting his...

EF 's circle of literary friends included Oliver Wendell Holmes , Joaquin Miller , James Russell Lowell , and Walt Whitman . She also made the acquaintance of many actors and actresses, including Henry Irving

SG left on a lecturing tour in the USA, travelling with theatre people Sir Henry Irving and Ellen Terry , as well as lecture-tour manager Major James Burton Pond .

An earlier version involving tableaux had been given at Caxton Hall in February this year. The Scala production was sponsored by the Actresses' Franchise League . The cast included Ellen Terry , Lillah McCarthy ,...

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...

JOH made the presentation speech at a banquet for Ellen Terry . It was the last time she spoke in public.

She made many friends and acquaintances both as a figure in society and as an author. These included literary people such as George Meredith , Thomas Hardy , Punch editor Owen Seaman , William Archer

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) at...

After the opening of Journeys End in Lovers' Meeting, JOH invited by Gladstone to read it to him while he was recovering from a cataract operation. Ellen Terry purchased the acting rights to the...

EJ vividly remembered later Ellen Terry 's performance in Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet (which her mother took her to see when she was ten). But she did not register the full impact of Shakespeare...

Her family was comfortably upper-middle-class on both sides, but her mother's theatrical connections made a difference. The family made a cult of Sir Henry Irving (for whom Pamela's maternal grandfather had worked as a manager)...

She enjoyed going to and hosting prominent literary and social receptions. Her guests included a wide range of people: popular writers such as Rudyard Kipling , Marie Corelli , and Frank Harris ; luminaries of...