Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell, 1998.
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Ellen Terry
Standard Name: Terry, Ellen
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Performance of text | Edith Craig | The event took place at the Palace Theatre
in London. EC
's mother, Ellen Terry
, played the role of the nursery-rhyme old woman who lived in a shoe. |
| politics | Christopher St John | 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. Auerbach, Nina. Ellen Terry: Player in Her Time. W.W. Norton, 1987. 181 Holledge, Julie. Innocent Flowers: Women in the Edwardian Theatre. Virago, 1981. 121 |
| Author summary | Edith Craig | EC
was primarily a theatre practitioner, known chiefly for her Pioneer Players
, the women's theatre company she founded in 1911. Her literary output was scant. She published a handful of articles on stagecraft, and... |
| Publishing | Charlotte O'Conor Eccles | 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... |
| Reception | John Oliver Hobbes | |
| Residence | Edith Craig | Ellen Terry
sent her daughter EC
, with Christopher St John
, to bid on a countryside property, Smallhythe Place, in Smallhythe, Kent, for the three of them to share as a summer home. Holledge, Julie. Innocent Flowers: Women in the Edwardian Theatre. Virago, 1981. 118 National Trust Handbook for Members and Visitors: March 1997 to March 1998. National Trust, 1997. 222 |
| Residence | Christopher St John | CSJ
and Edith Craig
moved to Priest's House, Smallhythe Place, Tenterden, Kent, on the property of Craig's mother
's farm. Auerbach, Nina. Ellen Terry: Player in Her Time. W.W. Norton, 1987. 480 Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell, 1998. 229 |
| Textual Features | Cicely Hamilton | The pageant required more than fifty actresses, only three of whom had speaking parts, to portray famous women from history (not all of them remembered today). In the initial, Scala production, the only speaking role... |
| Textual Features | Virginia Woolf | 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. Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus, 1996. 75-6 |
| 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, 1998. 233 |
| Textual Production | Clemence Dane | Thorndike and her husband Lewis Casson
, who had been in other plays by CD
, both appeared in this drama set in a home for the elderly. The character of Blanche Carroll was based... |
| Textual Production | Edith Craig | EC
, with Christopher St John
, contributed biographical chapters, a preface, and notes to a new edition of Ellen Terry
's Memoirs. OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. Terry, Ellen. “Preface; Biographical Chapters”. Ellen Terry’s Memoirs, edited by Edith Craig and Christopher St John, Benjamin Blom, 1969, pp. v - xi; 279. iii, 362 |
| Textual Production | Christopher St John | Ellen Terry
was in the cast. Cockin, Katharine. “Cicely Hamilton’s Warriors: dramatic reinventions of militancy in the British women’s suffrage movement”. Women’s History Review, Vol. 14 , No. 3/4, pp. 527-42. 534 |
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