Billington, Michael. Peggy Ashcroft, 1907-1991. Mandarin.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Performance of text | Enid Bagnold | Following its success on Broadway, EB
's play The Chalk Garden, began its impressive twenty-three-month run at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket
, directed by John Gielgud
and starring Peggy Ashcroft
and Edith Evans
. Billington, Michael. Peggy Ashcroft, 1907-1991. Mandarin. 160-2 Sebba, Anne. Enid Bagnold: The Authorized Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 192 |
Performance of text | Enid Bagnold | After touring the provinces, EB
's play The Last Joke opened at the Phoenix Theatre
in London, starring John Gielgud
and Ralph Richardson
. Bagnold, Enid. Four Plays. Little, Brown. 85 |
Friends, Associates | Enid Bagnold | During the Second World War EB
became friendly with photographer Cecil Beaton
(with whom she exchanged plays), Lady Diana Cooper
, and actress Dame Edith Evans
. Later she also became a friend of MGM |
death | Enid Bagnold | She was cremated and her ashes interred at Rottingdean. At a memorial service held in November, John Gielgud
read the lesson and Vita Sackville-West
's son Nigel Nicolson
gave the address. EB
's papers... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Edith Craig | The actor John Gielgud
was EC
's second cousin. On occasion he performed at her Barn Theatre
in Kent. Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell. 13 Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin. 251 |
Occupation | Edith Craig | In addition to a memorial service and speeches, these annual tributes usually included scenes from Shakespeare
performed by well-known actors such as John Gielgud
and Sybil Thorndike
. Playwright Clemence Dane
gave a memorial speech... |
Textual Production | Edith Craig | EC
's articles on theatre include Producing a Play in Munsey's Magazine (June 1907) and Notes on the Costumes in The Kensington (undated). Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell. 233 |
Textual Production | T. S. Eliot | It was an inauspicious time for an opening, because of gathering war-clouds. Anne Ridler
later wrote, it was a great pity that Eliot had refused to offer the part [of Harry, the pivotal character] to... |
Textual Features | Pam Gems | The play opens in Hollywood, with Mrs Patrick Campbell
regaling a new, American generation with her memories. It centres on her relationship with George Bernard Shaw
, but her life and career are also... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Jane Howard | She finished this novel while living in the house of her friend Ursula Vaughan Williams
(its dedicatee) after leaving Kingsley Amis
. Howard, Elizabeth Jane. Slipstream. Macmillan. 429 |
Friends, Associates | Naomi Jacob | NJ
said one of the greatest influences on her after her mother was the actress Gladys ffolliott
. Jacob, Naomi. Me: A Chronicle about Other People. Hutchinson. 174-6 |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Jennings | She had a remarkably catholic talent for friendship. During her student days she became a friend of Philip Larkin
and Kingsley Amis
. Her correspondents at this and later periods of her life included her... |
Performance of text | Molly Keane | She used the pseudonym M. J. Farrell when the play was published by Collins
the same year. 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. |
Textual Production | Molly Keane | |
Material Conditions of Writing | Molly Keane | She was in the middle of writing a play when her husband died, and she found she could not go on with it. She was still pretty desolate Chamberlain, Mary, editor. Writing Lives: Conversations Between Women Writers. Virago Press. 130 |