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6 unusual facts about Ellen Terry


Ann Rachlin

She is a published author of children's books and an authority on Ellen Terry, the great Victorian actress, and her daughter Edith Craig.

Frank Powell

Starting as a stage director for Augustus Thomas, he later joined playwright Kirk LaShelle, and afterwards for some years directed productions in Europe for Ellen Terry.

In Praise of Cosmetics

It is only with the rise of great actor dramatists like Sir Henry Irving and Dame Ellen Terry that we begin to see a turn in the tide of feeling.

Theatre Royal, Gloucester

At its centenary in 1891, Sir Henry Irving and Ellen Terry both appeared with members of the Lyceum Company.

Thomas W. Hanshew

Thomas W. Hanshew (1857 – 1914) was an American actor and writer, born in Brooklyn, N. Y. He went on the stage when only 16 years old, playing minor parts with Ellen Terry's company.

Vokes Theatre

A wall exists showing the signatures of some of those who came to Wayland including Ellen Terry, George Arliss, Florence Arliss, Katharine Cornell; the house archives show that other guests included diva Geraldine Farrar, and actors Ethel Barrymore, John Drew, Norah Bayes, and others.


Daniël Cornelis Boonzaier

This collection was not of much artistic merit, but was historically of great interest, since it included personalities such as Paul Kruger, Piet Joubert, Ellen Terry, Sarah Bernhardt, Henrik Ibsen, Leo Tolstoy, Émile Zola, Alphonse Daudet and Pierre Loti.

Effie Bancroft

Mr. and Mrs. Bancroft likewise presented at their theatre a number of prominent actors, among them Hare, Coghlan, the Kendals, and Ellen Terry.

Gwladys Evan Morris

In the introduction to the book, Morris explains that the character of Jack (a chattering monkey in her story of Man and Superman) is Shaw himself, and that the woman's part in another of her stories (Captain Brassbound's Conversion) is written "expressly for and round the personality of Ellen Terry", a famous actress of the day who had died, a year before publication, in 1928.

Henry Kemble

After two years alternating between the Haymarket and touring the provinces, first with Ellen Terry and then with Mrs Scott-Siddons, he reappeared on February 1882 at the Court Theatre as the Revd Mr Jones in Dion Boucicault's adaptation of My Little Girl and as Mr Justice Bunby in F. C. Burnand's farce The Manager.

The West End Horror

The story involves many well-known people, including George Bernard Shaw, who hires Holmes to look into the death of an unpleasant theatre critic; Sir Arthur Sullivan, one of whose singers at the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company was another victim of the murderer; and others including W. S. Gilbert, Oscar Wilde, Bram Stoker, Henry Irving, Ellen Terry and Frank Harris.

Violet Vanbrugh

In 1889 she joined the Kendals at the Royal Court Theatre and on tour in the U.S. Two years later, back in London, she joined Henry Irving and Ellen Terry in their famous Shakespeare company at the Lyceum Theatre.


see also

Terry family

Edith Craig (1869–1947) and Edward Gordon Craig (1872–1966), illegitimate children of Ellen Terry and her partner, Edward William Godwin (1833–1886).

Violet Vanbrugh

Back in England in 1891, she joined Henry Irving and Ellen Terry at the Lyceum Theatre as Anne Boleyn in his successful revival of King Henry VIII.