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Occupation | Edith Craig | EC
, aged eight, first appeared on stage in a walk-on role for a performance of Olivia at the Court Theatre
; her mother, Ellen Terry
, and famous actor Henry Irving
played the leads. Auerbach, Nina. Ellen Terry: Player in Her Time. W.W. Norton. 181-3 Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell. 38 |
Occupation | Edith Craig | EC
worked with Henry Irving
's Lyceum Company
even before she became a regular member of the company in 1890. Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell. 39 St John, Christopher. “Biographical Note”. Edy: Recollections of Edith Craig, edited by Eleanor Adlard, 1stst ed, Frederick Muller. 10 |
Occupation | Edith Craig | EC
both performed in and made the costumes for Henry Irving
's Lyceum Theatre
production of Victorien Sardou
's Robespierre. Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell. 41, 218 St John, Christopher. “Biographical Note”. Edy: Recollections of Edith Craig, edited by Eleanor Adlard, 1stst ed, Frederick Muller. 10 |
Textual Production | Edith Craig | EC
's articles on theatre include Producing a Play in Munsey's Magazine (June 1907) and Notes on the Costumes in The Kensington (undated). Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell. 233 |
Textual Production | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | A stage adaptation as Waterloo, starring Henry Irving
, was a great success in 1895. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Textual Features | T. S. Eliot | Most of the poems, except the first and last, draw the portrait of an individual cat, often humanised yet still feline, many of them ingeniously adapted to some specialised way of life. Gus the theatre... |
Occupation | Emmuska, Baroness Orczy | She had suddenly conceived the ambition of becoming an artist (the only profession open to her, as a girl of good family) when she heard that this was the choice of the cousin with whom... |
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 | Julia Frankau | Literary figures regularly seen at JF
's afternoon salons included George Moore
, Max Beerbohm
, Arnold Bennett
, Somerset Maugham
, Sir William Nicholson
, and Sir Henry Irving
. It was at one... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Julia Frankau | JF
's younger sister Eliza, later Aria
, also became a writer; more than Julia, she needed to support herself. She was a journalist, brilliant and witty, the founder of the school of gay flippant... |
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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Sarah Grand | In 1896 SG
described her two stepsons, one of whom was only six years younger than her, as the greatest friends I have in the world. Grand, Sarah. Sex, Social Purity and Sarah Grand: Volume 1. Editor Heilmann, Ann, Routledge. 281 |
Leisure and Society | Mary Anne Duffus Hardy | MADH
, like her daughter, was a keen theatre-goer and attender of concerts. She enjoyed the occasional melodrama, but preferred serious plays, and was delighted to discover that the New YorkShakespearean
repertoire was far... |
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 |
Textual Production | John Oliver Hobbes | She had planned The School For Saints as a play for Henry Irving
before reconceiving it as a novel, and had travelled in Normandy and the Paris area, where it is set, to get the... |
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