Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell, 1998.
41, 218
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Occupation | Edith Craig | EC
both performed in and made the costumes for Henry Irving
's Lyceum Theatre
production of Victorien Sardou
's Robespierre. Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell, 1998. 41, 218 St John, Christopher. “Biographical Note”. Edy: Recollections of Edith Craig, edited by Eleanor Adlard, 1st ed., Frederick Muller, 1949. 10 |
politics | Christopher St John | After seeing police surround a suffrage demonstration outside a memorial service for Henry Irving
(one of Ellen Terry
's lovers), CSJ
became a suffragist and an active campaigner. Auerbach, Nina. Ellen Terry: Player in Her Time. W.W. Norton, 1987. 181 Holledge, Julie. Innocent Flowers: Women in the Edwardian Theatre. Virago, 1981. 121 |
Publishing | Christopher St John | CSJ
contributed several pieces to the Green Sheaf, a magazine founded by Pamela Colman Smith
in 1903. After Sir Henry Irving
died, on 13 October 1905 (an event which indirectly triggered her career of... |
Reception | John Oliver Hobbes | After the opening of Journeys End in Lovers' Meeting, JOH
invited by Gladstone
to read it to him while he was recovering from a cataract operation. Ellen Terry
purchased the acting rights to the... |
Textual Features | T. S. Eliot | Most of the poems, except the first and last, draw the portrait of an individual cat, often humanised yet still feline, many of them ingeniously adapted to some specialised way of life. Gus the theatre... |
Textual Production | John Oliver Hobbes | She had planned The School For Saints as a play for Henry Irving
before reconceiving it as a novel, and had travelled in Normandy and the Paris area, where it is set, to get the... |
Textual Production | Edith Craig | EC
's articles on theatre include Producing a Play in Munsey's Magazine (June 1907) and Notes on the Costumes in The Kensington (undated). Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell, 1998. 233 |
Textual Production | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | A stage adaptation as Waterloo, starring Henry Irving
, was a great success in 1895. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Textual Production | Frances Sarah Hoey | The letters were lengthy, running between 3,000 and 5,000 words, and covered diverse topics including politics, society and fashion, and particularly contemporary literature and drama. FSH
is enthusiastic about Sir Henry Irving
, but describes... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Robins | Both Sides of the Curtain covers ER
's relations with the theatre knights Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree
and Sir Henry Irving
. According to Woolf (who found it a fascinating book, despite its portraits of... |
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