Sir Henry Irving

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...

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...

EF 's circle of literary friends included Oliver Wendell Holmes , Joaquin Miller , James Russell Lowell , and Walt Whitman . She also made the acquaintance of many actors and actresses, including Henry Irving

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...

Most of the poems, except the first and last, draw the portrait of an individual cat, often humanised yet still feline, many of them ingeniously adapted to some specialised way of life. Gus the theatre...

A stage adaptation as Waterloo, starring Henry Irving , was a great success in 1895.

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.

EC worked with Henry Irving 's Lyceum Company even before she became a regular member of the company in 1890.

EC both performed in and made the costumes for Henry Irving 's Lyceum Theatre production of Victorien Sardou 's Robespierre.

EC 's articles on theatre include Producing a Play in Munsey's Magazine (June 1907) and Notes on the Costumes in The Kensington (undated). An essay entitled Ellen Terry and Henry Irving (28 June 1939)...