Ellen Terry, Spheres of Influence

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Editor: Katharine Cockin

Dramatic Lives

Ellen Terry (1847–1928) was one of the most memorable performers on the British stage and she inspired some of the greatest artists of her day. But the familiarity of Terry to the world of the nineteenth-century theatre may to some extent have obscured some of the more contradictory and modern aspects of her approach to her work and life.

The archival repositories on Ellen Terry are numerous and widespread. This physical obstacle, together with the fact of her prolific epistolary output and the hitherto uncatalogued state of her own archive, has rendered many questions frustratingly unanswered. This collection of essays tackles some of these challenges and explores the spheres of influence of the Victorian actress. Established experts and new researchers, drawn from an international field, 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, Henry Irving and some less familiar figures.

Sample pages

• Ellen Terry, Spheres of Influence: Introduction
• Ellen Terry, Spheres of Influence: Index

Readership

Theatre Studies, Literature, Nineteenth-Century Studies and Gender Studies

Contents

Introduction: Ellen Terry and Her Circle: Formal Introductions and Informal Encounters – Katharine Cockin
Part I: Ellen Terry's Influences on others
1 Introduction: Ellen Terry’s Lost Lives – Nina Auerbach
2 Ellen Terry, Bram Stoker and the Lyceum’s Vampires – Catherine Wynne
3 Ellen Terry and G F Watts: 'Blasted with Ecstasy' – Veronica Franklin Gould
4 The Burden of Eternal Youth: Ellen Terry and The Mistress of the Robes – Jenny Bloodworth
5 The After Voice of Ellen Terry – Katherine E Kelly
Part II: Family Influences
6 Introduction: Edward Gordon Craig – Prophet or Charlatan? – Michael Holroyd
7 E W G and E G C: Father and Son – J Michael Walton
8 Lewis Carroll, Ellen Terry and the Stage Career of Menella 'Minna' Quinn: 'A Very Kind and Christian Deed' – Richard Foulkes
9 Edith Craig as Director: Staging Claudel in the War Years – Roberta Gandolfi
10 Velona Pilcher and Dame Ellen Terry (1926) – Charlotte Purkis
11 Ellen Terry: Preserving the Relics and Creating the Brand – Katharine Cockin
12 Describing the Ellen Terry and Edith Craig Archive – Julian Halliwell and Katharine Cockin

Related titles

• Bram Stoker and the Stage: Reviews, Reminiscences, Essays and Fiction
• Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, Twentieth-Century Actress
• Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part V: Beerbohm Tree, Henry Irving and Ellen Terry by their Contemporaries
• Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part VI: Lewis Carroll, Robert Louis Stevenson and Algernon Charles Swinburne by their Contemporaries
• The Public Lives of Charlotte and Marie Stopes
• The Collected Letters of Ellen Terry

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