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Friends, Associates | Amabel Williams-Ellis | AWE
's friends and associates included Edith Sitwell
, whose poems she often published in The Spectator; Storm Jameson
, a political mentor Williams-Ellis, Amabel. All Stracheys Are Cousins. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 128 |
Occupation | Helen Waddell | |
Textual Production | G. B. Stern | It enjoyed a good run, partly no doubt because of the presence of Mrs Patrick Campbell
in the title role. When approached about playing the part, the great actress had set out to demonstrate its... |
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... |
Textual Features | Constance Smedley | CS
eschews dates and does not always elucidate sequence. She vividly describes driving in a suffrage procession to the Albert Hall, sharing a carriage with Mrs Patrick Campbell
and her daughter Stella Campbell
... |
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... |
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... |
Friends, Associates | Hope Mirrlees | Very soon after this, she met and became a protegée of celebrated actress Mrs Patrick Campbell
(Beatrice Stella Tanner Campbell
). |
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... |
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 |
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