Gilbert Parker

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...

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...

This visit furthered her social networking, bringing her together with the classical scholar, lawyer and judge Sir Francis Henry Jeune (later Lord St Helier) and Lady Jeune , of whom she became a close friend...

EG began this novel, whose working title was The Chronicle of Ambrosine, while she was in Egypt. She finished it at Carlsbad on 20 August 1902, after a long interruption caused by travel...

EG accepted the contract partly to revive her waning popularity and partly because, as always, she needed the money. Lasky also hired Somerset Maugham , Edward Knoblock , Maurice Maeterlinck , Sir Gilbert Parker ...