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    Dame Alice Ellen Terry GBE (27 February 1847 – 21 July 1928) was a leading English actress of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born into a family...
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    Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth is an oil painting by John Singer Sargent, now in Tate Britain, in London. Painted in 1889, it depicts actress Ellen Terry...
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    daughter, Kate. Her younger sister Ellen achieved international fame, in partnership with Henry Irving. Ellen Terry was seen as the greatest star of the...
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    of the Victorian actress Ellen Terry from 1899 to her death in the house on 17 July 1928. The house contains Ellen Terry's theatre collection, while...
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    farewell performances. The great 19th-century stage team Henry Irving and Ellen Terry counted Benedick and Beatrice as their greatest triumph.[citation needed]...
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    Edward Gordon Craig (category Terry family)
    influential body of theoretical writings. Craig was the son of actress Dame Ellen Terry. The Gordon Craig Theatre, built in Stevenage (the town of his birth)...
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  • Julia Neilson was married to the actor Fred Terry, brother of the late nineteenth-century star Ellen Terry. Altogether, five of Hilda and Lily Hanbury's...
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    woman – & weak – not a Dove – of course not – but first of all a wife. —Ellen Terry Performances outside the patent theatres were instrumental in bringing...
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    and Terry's two illegitimate children, Teddy and Edy. Whether Irving's long, spectacularly successful relationship with leading lady Ellen Terry was romantic...
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    centuries, including Sarah Siddons, Charlotte Melmoth, Helen Faucit, Ellen Terry, Jeanette Nolan, Vivien Leigh, Isuzu Yamada, Simone Signoret, Vivien...
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  • Under Secretary of State Ellen Terry (1847–1928), English stage actress Ellen Travolta (born 1940), American actress Ellen von Unwerth (born 1954), German...
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    Beatrice has been portrayed by many actors including Frances Abington, Ellen Terry, Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Tamsin Greig, Emma Thompson, Catherine Tate...
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    The Illustrated Verses of William Butler Yeats, a book on actress Dame Ellen Terry by Bram Stoker, and two of her own books, Widdicombe Fair and Fair Vanity...
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    Portrait Gallery, Death-mask of Ellen Terry". Retrieved 4 November 2017. "National Trust catalogue: Plaster medallion of Ellen Terry". Retrieved 5 November 2017...
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  • Bernard Shaw, who reissued his romantic correspondence with the actress Ellen Terry. In 1957, Reinhardt and a banker partner bought the Bodley Head publishing...
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    Edith Craig (category Terry family)
    women's suffrage movement in England. She was the daughter of actress Ellen Terry and the progressive English architect-designer Edward William Godwin...
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    (1903) and a costume dress worn by the actress Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth, depicted in the painting Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth (1889). It was common in some...
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    Among these paintings is a portrait of his young wife, the actress Ellen Terry, who was 30 years his junior – having been introduced by mutual friend...
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    West End debut in the comedy She Stoops to Conquer in 1881. In 1878, Ellen Terry joined Henry Irving's company as his leading lady, and for more than...
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    Market and part-time amateur actor, and his wife Ellen Elizabeth Stevens (née Hoar). As a child, Terry-Thomas was often referred to as Tom, the diminutive...
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    theatre, especially in Shakespeare productions, usually starring opposite Ellen Terry. In 1904 the theatre was almost completely rebuilt and richly ornamented...
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  • Painter George Frederic Watts marries his 16-year-old model, the actress Ellen Terry, 30 years his junior, in London. She elopes less than a year later. December...
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    "doormat" by Ellen Terry, who also—and rather contradictorily—accused her of "hunt[ing] men down in the most undignified way". Terry's friend George...
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    play. Actresses that have portrayed Hero on stage and screen include Ellen Terry, Kate Beckinsale, Jennifer Gould, Billie Piper, Jillian Morgese and Jennifer...
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    gifted with great courage, strength, and love. Guinevere is played by Ellen Terry in the 1895 West End production King Arthur by J. Comyns Carr, with incidental...
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    Juliet where she was said to "steal the show" from a cast that included Ellen Terry but she returned to the role in 1884 with Mary Anderson; and she was...
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    actors: Kate, Ellen, Marion, Florence and Fred. Two other children, George and Charles, were connected with theatre management. Terry's sister Kate was...
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    famous sister Ellen, Terry nevertheless achieved considerable success in the plays of W. S. Gilbert, Oscar Wilde, Henry James and others. Terry was born in...
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    a Salvation Army maternity hospital in east London. Her mother, Annie Ellen (née Elkins), was a barmaid who was 46 when Eileen was born, and her father...
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    impressed an audience that included Lady Tree, the young Sybil Thorndike and Ellen Terry, who wrote in her diary, "The small boy who played Brutus is already...
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