Viola Tree

17 July 1884 - 15 November 1938

Standard Name: Tree, Viola

Birth Name: Viola Tree

Nickname: Villi Vi

Nickname: The Twig

Married Name: Viola Parsons

Pseudonym: Hubert Parsons

Best known for her acting career, which began in the early years of the twentieth century and ended in the thirties, VT was also an opera singer and a theatre manager. She published an autobiography, an etiquette book, and a biography of her husband . She also wrote two plays, one of which was in collaboration with Gerald du Maurier . Neither play was published, but both were produced. Her etiquette book stemmed from the etiquette and advice articles she had written for various magazines and newspapers, including her Sunday advice column.

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Connections

Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
Birth	Iris Tree	Her eldest sister was the actress Viola Tree and her next sister was Felicity, later Lady Cory-Wright .
Education	Hélène Barcynska	HB 's ambition to go on the stage caused her to write for advice to Ellen Terry , and then appeal for help to the admiring Sir Thomas Lipton , who offered to pay her...
Family and Intimate relationships	Iris Tree	IT 's eldest sister, the actress, singer, and memoirist Viola Tree , had an important influence on her and encouraged her to write. The sisters lived together for a time in Milan, where Viola...
Friends, Associates	Edith Sitwell	ES had many friendships, and there were few notables in the artistic world whom she did not meet. Her friendships were quite volatile, with frequent quarrels, sometimes caused by the practical jokes and the heightened...
Performance of text	Iris Tree	Not long afterwards, IT was discovered again, this time by classical scholar Edward Marsh . Marsh was editor of Rupert Brooke 's poems and of the anthology Georgian Poetry, whose five volumes appeared between...
Textual Production	Iris Tree	IT was writing poetry by the age of ten, exchanging original verses with Nancy Cunard , who went to day-school with her. By twelve she was impressing future Prime Minister Asquith , who had read...
Textual Production	Clemence Dane	After she finished this adaptation, G. B. Stern introduced her to Max Beerbohm. At this meeting the idea of casting Ivor Novello in The Happy Hypocrite first came up, suggested by Beerbohm's niece Viola Tree

Timeline

1904

Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree (father of the writers Viola and Iris Tree ) founded an Academy of Dramatic Art at His Majesty's Theatre in the Haymarket, London.

“RADA: A Brief History”. Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA).

1 January 1916

The British edition of Vogue (an American fashion magazine) began publishing from Condé Nast in Hanover Square, London.

Winship, Janice. Inside Women’s Magazines. Pandora, 1987.

166

White, Cynthia L. Women’s Magazines 1693-1968. Michael Joseph, 1970.

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.

Spawls, Alice. “Does one flare or cling?”. London Review of Books, Vol.

, No. 9, 5 May 2016, pp. 40-2.

Texts

Tree, Viola. Alan Parsons’ Book. Heinemann, 1937.

Tree, Viola, and Virginia Parsons. Can I Help You?. Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1937.

Tree, Viola. Castles in the Air. Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1926.

Tree, Viola, and Sir Gerald Herbert Edward Busson Du Maurier. The Dancers. Hodder and Stoughton, 1923.