Murphy, James H. “Broken Glass and Batoned Crowds: Cathleen Ni Houlihan and the Tensions of Transition”. Ireland in Transition, 1867-1921, edited by D. George Boyce and Alan ODay, Routledge, 2004, pp. 113-27.
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Annie Horniman
Standard Name: Horniman, Annie
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Occupation | Florence Farr | Annie Horniman
, whom FF
met through the Order of the Golden Dawn
, agreed to back the season financially. Farr succeeded in persuading Yeats
to write a one-act play for her season, and enlisted... |
| Occupation | John Millington Synge | In 1904, A. E. Horniman
, an Englishwoman who admired Yeats's dedication to Irish theatre, paid for the renovation of two buildings on Abbey Street and Marlborough Street, Dublin, and offered them free to... |
| Occupation | Augusta Gregory | With the financial support of Annie Horniman
, AG
and the Irish Literary Theatre
secured a permanent home: the Abbey Theatre
in Dublin. |
| Performance of text | Elizabeth Baker | EB
's realist family drama The Price of Thomas Scott opened at Annie Horniman
's Gaiety Theatre
in Manchester. Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press, 1973. 490 Baker, Elizabeth. The Price of Thomas Scott. Sidgwick and Jackson, 1913. prelims |
| Performance of text | George Bernard Shaw | GBS
's first play to run at a commercial theatre, Arms and the Man, a satire on romantic notions of war and militarism, was produced by Florence Farr
and Annie Horniman
at the Avenue Theatre |
| Performance of text | George Paston | Annie Horniman
gave this play two successful revivals in Manchester: at the Midland Hotel Theatre
in October 1907, and at the Gaiety Theatre
in 1908, where its proceeds guaranteed the season's financial success. Kaplan, Joel H., and Sheila Stowell. Theatre and Fashion: Oscar Wilde to the Suffragettes. Cambridge University Press, 1994. 164 |
| Textual Production | Githa Sowerby | She had worked on it during a visit to Sutton Courtenay just before she was married, and finished it in late 1913. Curtis Brown
had wanted her to produce something more light-hearted, but several theatre... |
Timeline
By April 1894: English theatre patron Annie Horniman funded...
Writing climate item
By April 1894
English theatre patron Annie Horniman
funded a repertory season at the Avenue Theatre
(later the Avenue Playhouse), London which concentrated on the new drama.
Hartnoll, Phyllis, editor. The Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 4th ed., Oxford University Press, 1983.
397
7 September 1908: English theatre patron Annie Horniman founded...
Building item
7 September 1908
English theatre patron Annie Horniman
founded the Manchester Repertory Company
, which began its first season at the renovated Gaiety Theatre
, Manchester.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
341
Hartnoll, Phyllis, editor. The Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 4th ed., Oxford University Press, 1983.
397
Stevenson, John, 1946 -. British Society, 1914-45. Penguin, 1984.
417
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