Dame Sybil Thorndike

The Fawcett Library (now the Women's Library) in London houses the Suffrage archives, including many of EP 's papers. A sound recording about her, originally an Argo long-playing record, contains a reminiscence by Sybil Thorndike

Henry Bly was written for Martin Browne 's Mercury Theatre , but only got as far as a read-through by the Poets Theatre Guild before Browne's tenure of the theatre lapsed. Another of these plays,...

During this period, the Russells' friends and associates included Sybil Thorndike and Lewis Casson , Ottoline Morrell , T. S. Eliot , W. B. Yeats , G. B. and Charlotte Shaw , Desmond MacCarthy ...

Saint Joan, a history play by GBS responding to Joan 's recent canonization, had its London opening at the New Theatre , starring Sybil Thorndike . The role was crucial for Thorndike, who was...

Vita Sackville-West —although St John's death brought her the horrifying discovery of the love-journal recording their relationship—wrote to The Times celebrating her as a roaringly rumbustious character in the grand tradition of English eccentrics.