Cavendish, Dominic. “Passionate Pam, the odd woman out”. The Telegraph.
Beatrice Stella Campbell
Standard Name: Campbell, Beatrice Stella
Used Form: Mrs Patrick Campbell
Used Form: Beatrice Stella Tanner Campbell
Birth Name: Beatrice Stella Tanner
Used Form: Mrs Pat
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
---|---|---|
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Florence Farr | One piece critiques Shaw
's clinical treatment of his female models: [H]e seats her in a dentist's chair, puts a gag in her mouth, isolates a tooth as ruthlessly as any dentist and then takes... |
Textual Production | Pam Gems | |
Textual Features | Pam Gems | The play opens in Hollywood, with Mrs Patrick Campbell
regaling a new, American generation with her memories. It centres on her relationship with George Bernard Shaw
, but her life and career are also... |
Friends, Associates | Naomi Jacob | NJ
said one of the greatest influences on her after her mother was the actress Gladys ffolliott
. Jacob, Naomi. Me: A Chronicle about Other People. Hutchinson. 174-6 |
Literary responses | Naomi Jacob | Despite having been reproved in her youth by no less a person than Christabel Pankhurst
for her love of popularity, NJ
continued to enjoy opening letters from readers. Jacob, Naomi. Me: A Chronicle about Other People. Hutchinson. 199-200 |
Performance of text | Edith Lyttelton | St. Ursula's Pilgrimage: A Miracle Play in Five Shewings by EL
, was produced by Mrs Patrick Campbell
at the Court Theatre
in London, with a cast featuring several prominent members of society. Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press. 797 |
Performance of text | Edith Lyttelton | The Macleans of Bairness, a history play by EL
about Bonnie Prince Charlie
, was produced by Mrs Patrick Campbell
at the Criterion Theatre
. Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press. 797 Kaplan, Joel H., and Sheila Stowell. Theatre and Fashion: Oscar Wilde to the Suffragettes. Cambridge University Press. 84 |
Friends, Associates | Edith Lyttelton | EL
numbered among her close friends the well-known actress Mrs Patrick Campbell
, whom she first met in 1890. Campbell performed in several of her plays. In 1912, EL
was an intermediary when Bernard Shaw |
Textual Production | Edith Lyttelton | The Pall Mall Gazette estimated that between 4,000 and 5,000 people gathered outside the theatre to watch the arrival of prominent politicians and socialites who turned out for the performance. Mrs Patrick Campbell
, who... |
Friends, Associates | Hope Mirrlees | Very soon after this, she met and became a protegée of celebrated actress Mrs Patrick Campbell
(Beatrice Stella Tanner Campbell
). |
Textual Features | George Paston | A wife plays a trick on her husband by pretending that she mistakes him for a famous romance writer who (she further pretends) is her lover. Her husband, discovering the ruse, turns the tables and... |
Performance of text | George Bernard Shaw | Mrs Patrick Campbell
's Company
first performed GBS
's history play Caesar
and Cleopatra, at the Theatre Royal
in Newcastle upon Tyne. Innes, Christopher, editor. The Cambridge Companion to George Bernard Shaw. Cambridge University Press. xxiii Innes, Christopher. Modern British Drama, 1890-1990. Cambridge University Press. 23 Weintraub, Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 10. Gale Research. |
Performance of text | George Bernard Shaw | GBS
's best-known play, Pygmalion, opened at His Majesty's Theatre
, Haymarket, London, with Mrs Patrick Campbell
as Eliza Doolittle (a part written for her) to Sir Herbert Tree
's Henry Higgins. This... |
Friends, Associates | Constance Smedley | In Birmingham CS
had become friendly with Coulson Kernahan
, through whom she also met Flora Klickmann
. Edgar Pemberton
brought her acquainted with theatrical figures she deeply admired: Sir Charles Wyndham
, and Mary Moore |
Publishing | Constance Smedley | CS
persevered with writing plays, and began studying drama and theatre history. One of her early plays, also performed at the Birmingham School of Art
, starred her sister
. Another centred on an actress... |
Timeline
March 1890: The renowned English actress Mrs Patrick...
Building item
March 1890
The renowned English actress Mrs Patrick Campbell
made her first appearance on the London stage in Sheridan Knowles
's The Hunchback.
February 1891: Theatre producer and critic J. T. Grein founded...
Building item
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.
13 March 1895: Arthur Wing Pinero's New Woman play The Notorious...
Writing climate item
13 March 1895
Arthur Wing Pinero
's New Woman playThe Notorious Mrs Ebbsmith opened at the Garrick Theatre
in London.
May 1912: A group of women singers including Sarah...
Building item
May 1912
A group of women singers including Sarah Bernhardt
, Mrs Patrick Campbell
, Clara Butt
, and Anna Pavlova
rallied together for a single performance in aid of the Titanic Disaster Fund at Covent Garden.
Texts
No bibliographical results available.