Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus.
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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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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 Production | Christopher St John | Ellen Terry
was in the cast. 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 |
Friends, Associates | Christopher St John | Christabel Marshall (later CSJ
) met the actress Ellen Terry
and her daughter Edith Craig
; they soon became intimate friends. Auerbach, Nina. Ellen Terry: Player in Her Time. W.W. Norton. 480 |
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 |
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 |
Occupation | Christopher St John | After the death of Ellen Terry
, Edith Craig
and CSJ
turned the barn on their property at Smallhythe into a theatre
; the farm they renamed the Ellen Terry Memorial Museum
. Auerbach, Nina. Ellen Terry: Player in Her Time. W.W. Norton. 400, 453 |
Leisure and Society | Christopher St John | The Annual Ellen Terry Memorial Performance was held at the Barn Theatre
, Smallhythe: the three women commemorated were Ellen Terry
, Edith Craig
, and Virginia Woolf
. Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell. 176 |
names | Christopher St John | The St John stood for St John the Baptist
, for whom she had a special devotion. Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin. 250 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Berta Ruck | Her Welsh grandmother, born Mary Anne Mathews
, whom she called Nain, had kept a youthful journal, some of which BR
prints. Ruck, Berta. An Asset to Wales. Hutchinson. 81-2ff |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Robins | ER
's first few years in London brought her into contact with several important literary and theatre figures, including Henry James
, Oscar Wilde
, actor-manager Herbert Beerbohm Tree
, and actress Ellen Terry
... |
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... |
Occupation | Edith Lyttelton | Its membership included a number of prominent members of society and theatre people, among them Ellen Terry
, Lena Ashwell
, and Beerbohm Tree
. Princess Marie Louise
served as president. Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press. 86 |
Leisure and Society | Eliza Lynn Linton | 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... |
Cultural formation | Pamela Hansford Johnson | 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)... |
Education | Elizabeth Jenkins | 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... |