Ellen Terry

Standard Name: Terry, Ellen

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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.
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Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell.
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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.
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National Trust Handbook for Members and Visitors: March 1997 to March 1998. National Trust.
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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.
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Occupation Edith Craig
The Barn Theatre , founded by EC , held its first memorial performance in honour of her mother, actress Ellen Terry .
Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell.
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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. 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, pp. v - xi; 279.
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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...
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...
Performance of text Hannah Cowley
Thereafter she stayed with Covent Garden for her major works. She was paid £100 to delay publishing this play, presumably to keep the public's appetite on edge.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
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It appeared with a dedication to...
Literary responses Hannah Cowley
The Critical called The Belle's Stratagemthe best dramatic production of a female pen which has appeared since the days of Centlivre , to whom Mrs. Cowley is at least equal in fable and character...
Occupation Marie Corelli
From 1886, when she published her first novel, A Romance of Two Worlds, onward, MC produced books at great speed. She was an instant success, and throughout her life she sold approximately 100,000 books...
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...
Occupation Hélène Barcynska
After her dramatic training Daisy Jervis worked on the stage, but with no real success.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
She gave a concert on her own, had one job as a dancer (at two pounds a week), lost another...

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