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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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... |
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... |
Textual Features | T. S. Eliot | 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... |
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. 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, 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,... |
Occupation | Edith Lyttelton | Its membership included a number of prominent members of society and theatre people, among them Ellen Terry
, Lena Ashwell
, and Beerbohm Tree
. Princess Marie Louise
served as president. Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press. 86 |
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. Deutsch. 101 Savory, Elaine. Jean Rhys. Cambridge University Press. 11 Angier, Carole. Jean Rhys: Life and Work. Little, Brown. 45-6 |
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
... |
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... |
Performance of text | George Bernard Shaw | GBS
's best-known play, Pygmalion, opened at His Majesty's Theatre
, Haymarket, London, with Mrs Patrick Campbell
as Eliza Doolittle (a part written for her) to Sir Herbert Tree
's Henry Higgins. This... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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