Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Helen Faucit
Standard Name: Faucit, Helen
Used Form: Helena Faucit Saville, Lady Martin
Connections
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Family and Intimate relationships | Jane Francesca Lady Wilde | At one time he had been in love with Helen Faucit
. He was also a notorious womanizer and had fathered three illegitimate children before his marriage to JFLW
, a fact which she accepted... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Geraldine Jewsbury | However, the intense jealousy that had early affected the friendship persisted. Around 1846 GJ
began her friendship with the American actress Charlotte Cushman
, who was then visiting Manchester. Much to the frustration of... |
Friends, Associates | Jane Francesca Lady Wilde | As in Dublin, she became known for her salons, which were held on Saturdays from 5 to 7 p.m. until their popularity demanded bi-weekly gatherings. The cream of London's literati and intelligentsia attended, including George Bernard Shaw |
Friends, Associates | Anna Swanwick | Other friends mentioned by her niece and biographer were Fredrika Bremer
, Anna Brownell Jameson
, Frances Power Cobbe
, Thomas Carlyle
, George MacDonald
, Lady Eastlake
, Elizabeth Rundle Charles
, Lady Martin |
Friends, Associates | Anna Maria Hall | One of AMH
's closest friends was the actress Helen Faucit
, later Lady Martin. Though socially conservative in her attitudes, she was apparently more ready than her husband to achieve friendly relations with those... |
Friends, Associates | Isabel Hill | Another friend, the actress Helen Faucit
, was quick to lend Isabel and her brother money when they were in need. (Isabel succeeded in repaying it out of literary earnings not long before her death.)... |
Friends, Associates | Eliza Ogilvy | Over the years EO
developed friendships many people, a number of whom were involved with the community surrounding the Crystal Palace at Sydenham. Among these friends were Sir David Brewster
, Henry Chorley
,... |
Textual Production | Robert Browning | RB
's play A Blot in the 'Scutcheon, the fifth instalment of his Bells and Pomegranates series, opened at the Drury Lane Theatre
with Helen Faucit
playing Mildred. Thomas, Donald. Robert Browning: A Life Within Life. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1982. 64 |
Timeline
1835: Helen Faucit made her first important acting...
Building item
1835
Helen Faucit
made her first important acting appearance at the Covent Garden
Theatre, aged eighteen.
Macqueen-Pope, Walter James. Ladies First: The Story of Woman’s Conquest of the British Stage. W. H. Allen, 1952.
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1885: Actress Helen Faucit (who had become Lady...
Writing climate item
1885
Actress Helen Faucit
(who had become Lady Martin when her husband was knighted in 1880) published On Some of Shakespeare
's Female Characters, a collection of essays that first appeared in Blackwood's.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, 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.
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