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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 | 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
... |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Edith Craig | Actress Ellen Terry
, EC
's mother, died at home at Smallhythe Place, Smallhythe, Kent. Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell. 155 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Edith Craig | 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... |
Education | Hélène Barcynska | 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... |
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)... |
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