Rhys, Jean, and Diana Athill. Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography. 1st ed., Deutsch, 1979.
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Birth | Viola Tree | Her father, the famous actor-manager Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree
, named her after the Viola of Shakespeare
's Twelfth Night (though he almost named her Rosalind, for As You Like It). At her birth... |
Education | Hélène Barcynska | HB
's ambition to go on the stage caused her to write for advice to Ellen Terry
, and then appeal for help to the admiring Sir Thomas Lipton
, who offered to pay her... |
Education | Jean Rhys | Ella Williams (later JR
) entered Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree
's School (later renamed the Academy of Dramatic Art
) in London to study acting. Rhys, Jean, and Diana Athill. Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography. 1st ed., Deutsch, 1979. 101 Savory, Elaine. Jean Rhys. Cambridge University Press, 1998. 11 Angier, Carole. Jean Rhys: Life and Work. Little, Brown, 1990. 45-6 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Iris Tree | IT
's father was actor-manager Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree
, who had given up a job in the family corn-merchant business to pursue acting. After his father told him, An actor can be tolerated only... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ella Hepworth Dixon | EHD
's eldest brother, William Jerrold Dixon
, was a barrister and the secretary of a Royal Commission established to investigate the sanitary conditions of Dublin; he died in that city on 20 October... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Viola Tree | Throughout her life, VT
took direction from her father, the actor-manager Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree
, who had abandoned his job in the family corn-trading business to pursue a career on stage, and had changed... |
Friends, Associates | Edith Sitwell | ES
had many friendships, and there were few notables in the artistic world whom she did not meet. Her friendships were quite volatile, with frequent quarrels, sometimes caused by the practical jokes and the heightened... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Robins | ER
's first few years in London brought her into contact with several important literary and theatre figures, including Henry James
, Oscar Wilde
, actor-manager Herbert Beerbohm Tree
, and actress Ellen Terry
... |
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 | Kate Parry Frye | At the Bourne End house, KPF
and her sister spent idyllic youthful days, canoeing, punting, and bicycling. Frye, Kate Parry. “Introduction”. Campaigning for the Vote: Kate Parry Frye’s Suffrage Diary, edited by Elizabeth Crawford, Francis Boutle Publishers, 2013, pp. 9-34. 18 |
Leisure and Society | Elinor Glyn | EG
appeared on stage in a tableau vivant, one of a series designed by a socialite named Lady Arthur Paget (Minnie)
and directed by Beerbohm Tree
at His Majesty's Theatre
. EG
's grandson biographer,... |
Literary responses | Iris Tree | The reviewer for the Times announced, If anyone were able to revive the forgotten art of melodrama it would surely be the daughter of Sir Herbert Tree
. The review continued by stating that IT |
Occupation | Constance Smedley | CS
began early to see herself as a professional. She placed her first full-page illustration in the Pall Mall Magazine at the age of sixteen, and was so delighted at its acceptance that she took... |
Occupation | Viola Tree | VT
made her theatrical debut at not yet twenty, performing the namesake role of Viola in her father
's production of Twelfth Night at the Theatre Royal
in Edinburgh. “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. (16 November 1938): 9 Beerbohm, Max, editor. Herbert Beerbohm Tree: Some Memories of Him and of His Art. Hutchinson, 1920. 131 |
Occupation | Viola Tree | VT
performed in London for the first time, playing the part of Ariel in her father
's production of The Tempest at His Majesty's Theatre
. “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. (16 November 1938): 9 Beerbohm, Max, editor. Herbert Beerbohm Tree: Some Memories of Him and of His Art. Hutchinson, 1920. 131 |
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