Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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 |
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... |
Friends, Associates | George Egerton | 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. Egerton, George. A Leaf from the Yellow Book. Editor White, Terence de Vere, Richards Press. 34 |
Leisure and Society | Emmuska, Baroness Orczy | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Emily Faithfull | EF
's circle of literary friends included Oliver Wendell Holmes
, Joaquin Miller
, James Russell Lowell
, and Walt Whitman
. Stone, James S. Emily Faithfull: Victorian Champion of Women’s Rights. P. D. Meany. 183 |
Occupation | Sarah Grand | 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
. Major Pond (1838-1903) also... |
Performance of text | Cicely Hamilton | 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
,... |
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... |
Occupation | John Oliver Hobbes | JOH
made the presentation speech at a banquet for Ellen Terry
. It was the last time she spoke in public. Richards, John Morgan, and John Oliver Hobbes. “Pearl Richards Craigie: Biographical Sketch by her Father”. The Life of John Oliver Hobbes, J. Murray. 35 |
Friends, Associates | John Oliver Hobbes | 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 |
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 |
Reception | John Oliver Hobbes | |
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... |
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)... |
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... |
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