Johnson, Pamela Hansford. Important to Me. Macmillan; Scribner.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Reception | John Oliver Hobbes | 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... |
Textual Production | Frances Sarah Hoey | 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... |
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. 66 |
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 | Adelaide Kemble | AK
and her husband kept up the Kemble family tradition with private theatricals. She also continued to attend the London theatre: when she first saw on stage a young unknown called Henry Irving
, she... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Robins | 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... |
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. 181 Holledge, Julie. Innocent Flowers: Women in the Edwardian Theatre. Virago. 121 |
Publishing | Christopher St John | 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... |
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... |
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