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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 | Pamela Hansford Johnson | PHJ
learned a lot in the library of her maternal grandfather, whose books, she says, were mostly [Henry] Irving
's rejects. Johnson, Pamela Hansford. Important to Me. Macmillan; Scribner, 1974. 66 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Sarah Grand | In 1896 SG
described her two stepsons, one of whom was only six years younger than her, as the greatest friends I have in the world. Grand, Sarah. Sex, Social Purity and Sarah Grand: Volume 1. Editor Heilmann, Ann, Routledge, 2000. 281 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Julia Frankau | JF
's younger sister Eliza, later Aria
, also became a writer; more than Julia, she needed to support herself. She was a journalist, brilliant and witty, the founder of the school of gay flippant... |
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 | 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 | Julia Frankau | Literary figures regularly seen at JF
's afternoon salons included George Moore
, Max Beerbohm
, Arnold Bennett
, Somerset Maugham
, Sir William Nicholson
, and Sir Henry Irving
. It was at one... |
Friends, Associates | John Strange Winter | JSW
had an extensive social circle in London—her biographer, Oliver Bainbridge
, notes that a number of social claims were made upon her by reason of her popularity, and that these were always in advance... |
Leisure and Society | Mary Anne Duffus Hardy | MADH
, like her daughter, was a keen theatre-goer and attender of concerts. She enjoyed the occasional melodrama, but preferred serious plays, and was delighted to discover that the New YorkShakespearean
repertoire was far... |
Literary Setting | Pamela Hansford Johnson | This book, which draws on the history of the late nineteenth-century London theatre in which PHJ
's family was steeped, features a famous actor-manager (Henry Peverell, who has something in common at least with Sir Henry Irving |
Occupation | Emmuska Baroness Orczy | She had suddenly conceived the ambition of becoming an artist (the only profession open to her, as a girl of good family) when she heard that this was the choice of the cousin with whom... |
Occupation | Sarah Grand | SG
left on a lecturing tour in the USA, travelling with theatre people Sir Henry Irving
and Ellen Terry
, as well as lecture-tour manager Major James Burton Pond
. Major Pond (1838-1903) also... |
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, 1987. 181-3 Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell, 1998. 38 |
Occupation | Edith Craig | EC
worked with Henry Irving
's Lyceum Company
even before she became a regular member of the company in 1890. Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell, 1998. 39 St John, Christopher. “Biographical Note”. Edy: Recollections of Edith Craig, edited by Eleanor Adlard, 1st ed., Frederick Muller, 1949. 10 |
Occupation | Edith Craig | EC
both performed in and made the costumes for Henry Irving
's Lyceum Theatre
production of Victorien Sardou
's Robespierre. Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell, 1998. 41, 218 St John, Christopher. “Biographical Note”. Edy: Recollections of Edith Craig, edited by Eleanor Adlard, 1st ed., Frederick Muller, 1949. 10 |
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