Ellen Terry

Standard Name: Terry, Ellen

Connections

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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
This farcical presentation of Victorian life...
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
Taking the allusion a step further, she said that she performed the role of announcing to the...
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
While in London, Nain had met Ellen Terry and George Eliot ...
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...

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.