Sir 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...

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.

CSJ contributed several pieces to the Green Sheaf, a magazine founded by Pamela Colman Smith in 1903. After Sir Henry Irving died, on 13 October 1905 (an event which indirectly triggered her career of...

After the opening of Journeys End in Lovers' Meeting, JOH invited by Gladstone to read it to him while he was recovering from a cataract operation. Ellen Terry purchased the acting rights to the...

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...

She had planned The School For Saints as a play for Henry Irving before reconceiving it as a novel, and had travelled in Normandy and the Paris area, where it is set, to get the...

The letters were lengthy, running between 3,000 and 5,000 words, and covered diverse topics including politics, society and fashion, and particularly contemporary literature and drama. FSH is enthusiastic about Sir Henry Irving , but describes...

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)...

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

Both Sides of the Curtain covers ER 's relations with the theatre knights Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree and Sir Henry Irving . According to Woolf (who found it a fascinating book, despite its portraits of...