The Collected Letters of Ellen Terry, Volume 2


Book Description

Ellen Terry's correspondence was both exuberant and extensive. Her remaining letters provide a fascinating insight into the dynamics of the Victorian theatre, and the difficulties of life for a woman maintaining a successful public persona whilst raising two illegitimate children.










The Collected Letters of Ellen Terry, Volume 1


Book Description

Ellen Terry's correspondence was both exuberant and extensive. Her remaining letters provide a fascinating insight into the dynamics of the Victorian theatre, and the difficulties of life for a woman maintaining a successful public persona whilst raising two illegitimate children.




The Collected Letters of Ellen Terry, Volume 3


Book Description

Ellen Terry's correspondence was both exuberant and extensive. Her remaining letters provide a fascinating insight into the dynamics of the Victorian theatre, and the difficulties of life for a woman maintaining a successful public persona whilst raising two illegitimate children.




Ellen Terry, Spheres of Influence


Book Description

In this essay collection, established experts and new researchers, reassess the performances and cultural significance of Ellen Terry, her daughter Edith Craig (1869–1947) and her son Edward Gordon Craig (1872–1966), as well as Bram Stoker, Lewis Carroll and some less familiar figures.




The Collected Letters of Ellen Terry, Volume 6


Book Description

Ellen Terry's correspondence was both exuberant and extensive. Her remaining letters provide a fascinating insight into the dynamics of the Victorian theatre, and the difficulties of life for a woman maintaining a successful public persona whilst raising two illegitimate children.




Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part V, Volume 3


Book Description

Extracts from diaries, memoirs, private letters, obituaries and other rare ephemera are drawn together to build a contemporary account of the acting achievements and personal lives of three inspiring figures from the late nineteenth-century theatre; Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Henry Irving and Ellen Terry.




Bram Stoker and the Stage, Volume 2


Book Description

Though best known as the author of Dracula (1897) Bram Stoker had a successful career in the theatre. This collection brings together all Stoker's theatrical reviews from Dublin's Evening Mail, his published essays and interviews on the theatre, selections from Reminiscences of Henry Irving (1906) and a fictional work on the theatre.




The Making of Victorian Drama


Book Description

The drama of Edward Bulwer, Tom Robertson, W. S. Gilbert, W. A. Jones, Arthur Pinero, Oscar Wilde and Bernard Shaw, examined in social and political context. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of theatre history, English literature and social history, and women's studies.