William Shakespeare

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...

Before she was fifteen MAK fell in love with a young nobleman, an undergraduate who had been at school with her brother. His nodding civilly to her at a concert, by promoting me to...

AB bore her younger son, Francis , who became an influential scientist, writer, and thinker, as well as Lord Chancellor of England, and Viscount St Albans.

Her father, John Sadler , was a well-to-do druggist and tobacconist who came from Stratford upon Avon. His grandfather was probably at school with Shakespeare , and he himself was connected by marriage with...

Her sister Maria , about twelve years her elder, wrote some remarkable love-letters and was a model for Shakespeare 's Juliet.

AW probably acquired that name at this date, when she married William Wentworth , a Londoner who may have been (like Shakespeare 's father) in the glove trade.

HMB 's elder brother, John, trained as a lawyer but won modest fame as a Church of England writer. A memoir of him was published by one of his sons, another Thomas, in 1824. The...

One of JSW 's great-great-grandmothers (on her father's side) was Hannah Pritchard , a celebrated actress and singer. Henrietta seems not to have known that this made her a great-niece of Alicia Tyndal Palmer ...

SH married Shakespearean scholar Stanley Wells on Shakespeare 's birthday at Stratford-on-Avon.

In a letter to Dorothy Brett , Mansfield wrote: The point about [Elizabeth] is that one loves her and is proud of her. Oh, that's so important! To be proud of the person one loves...

Five years after Ivy came home from college, her mother's death left her, her brother Noel, and Martyn Mowll as joint trustees and guardians of her four younger sisters: Vera , Judy , Topsy ...

Hosain remained in London, and eventually took up a job with the BBC . During her time as a broadcaster, she presented her own women's programme for the BBC's Eastern Service, worked variously for the...

Her mother was born Elizabeth Batten ; she christened her daughter with her mother's first name and her own birth surname. She was the daughter of a merchant and the sister of a dissenting minister...

After studying at RADA, NS went on the stage, where she gained experience of everything from classic roles to revues and pantomime. Her first engagement was with the Charles DoranShakespeare an Company where she...

At the age of twelve, SD attended her first theatrical event: an amateur production at Broughton Secondary School of Shakespeare 's Othello, which made a great impression.