Ellen Terry

Following her introduction to Ellen and Marion (Polly) Terry as a teenager, EA hoped to become an actress, having acted in several amateur theatricals in Oxford.

The Critical called The Belle's Stratagemthe best dramatic production of a female pen which has appeared since the days of Centlivre , to whom Mrs. Cowley is at least equal in fable and character...

After the death of Ellen Terry , Edith Craig and CSJ turned the barn on their property at Smallhythe into a theatre ; the farm they renamed the Ellen Terry Memorial Museum .

Its membership included a number of prominent members of society and theatre people, among them Ellen Terry , Lena Ashwell , and Beerbohm Tree . Princess Marie Louise served as president.

The Barn Theatre , founded by EC , held its first memorial performance in honour of her mother, actress Ellen Terry .

After her mother's death, EC retired to her village home. There she established the Barn Theatre , a converted barn on the grounds of Smallhythe Place which would host an annual dramatic festival in honour...

SG left on a lecturing tour in the USA, travelling with theatre people Sir Henry Irving and Ellen Terry , as well as lecture-tour manager Major James Burton Pond .

JOH made the presentation speech at a banquet for Ellen Terry . It was the last time she spoke in public.

After her dramatic training Daisy Jervis worked on the stage, but with no real success. She gave a concert on her own, had one job as a dancer (at two pounds a week), lost another...

From 1886, when she published her first novel, A Romance of Two Worlds, onward, MC produced books at great speed. She was an instant success, and throughout her life she sold approximately 100,000 books...

EC , aged eight, first appeared on stage in a walk-on role for a performance of Olivia at the Court Theatre ; her mother, Ellen Terry , and famous actor Henry Irving played the leads.

The event took place at the Palace Theatre in London. EC 's mother, Ellen Terry , played the role of the nursery-rhyme old woman who lived in a shoe. The play was never...

CD 's play Ellen Terry in the Theatre was performed at the Barn Theatre on Christopher St John 's property at Smallhythe, Kent, for the Ellen Terry anniversary celebration.

An earlier version involving tableaux had been given at Caxton Hall in February this year. The Scala production was sponsored by the Actresses' Franchise League . The cast included Ellen Terry , Lillah McCarthy ,...

In the same year JOH and Moore also collaborated on the one-act comedy Journeys End in Lovers' Meeting (titled from Shakespeare ), which was performed in June 1895 (according to her father's memoir) at...