Ellen Terry

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...

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.

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...

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 ...

Her Welsh grandmother, born Mary Anne Mathews , whom she called Nain, had kept a youthful journal, some of which BR prints. While in London, Nain had met Ellen Terry and George Eliot ...

Christabel Marshall (later CSJ ) met the actress Ellen Terry and her daughter Edith Craig ; they soon became intimate friends.

CSJ and Edith Craig moved to Priest's House, Smallhythe Place, Tenterden, Kent, on the property of Craig's mother 's farm.

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.

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 .

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 .

Ellen Terry was in the cast.

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. This farcical presentation of Victorian life...