Ruck, Berta. An Asset to Wales. Hutchinson, 1970.
81-2ff
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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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)... |
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... |
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... |
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, 1970. 81-2ff |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ethel M. Arnold | EA’s relationships with women were a central thread in her life, a stabilizing source of emotional nurturance, political solidarity, and professional mentorship. Ardis, Ann. “New Women and the New Hellenism”. The New Woman in Fiction and in Fact, edited by Angelique Richardson and Chris Willis, Palgrave Macmillan, 2002, pp. 107-22. 114 |
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, 1998. 155 |
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 | 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 |
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, 1958. 34 |
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, 1994. 183 |
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, 1987. 480 |
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... |
Leisure and Society | Ethel M. Arnold | Following her introduction to Ellen
and Marion (Polly) Terry
as a teenager, EA hoped to become an actress, having acted in several amateur theatricals in Oxford. Wachter, Phyllis E. Surname Arnold; Occupation: Spinster; Avocation: New Victorian Woman. Temple University, Apr. 1984. 52-4 |
Leisure and Society | Eliza Lynn Linton | 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... |