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Edy was a Lady

Author : Ann Rachlin
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 178088012X
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Edy was a Lady written by Ann Rachlin and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2011 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edith Craig (1869-1947), illegitimate, lesbian, suffragette, was the most extraordinary contributor to British Theatre of her time. As an actor on stage and in silent movies, she was also a brilliant costume designer, costume maker, stage producer, director and fencing expert. As she worked and toured throughout the UK and USA with her mother, world famous actress Dame Ellen Terry and Sir Henry Irving, her memoirs throw light on that iconic theatrical partnership, illuminating in a most colourful way the magic that gripped audiences everywhere. Not only did she meet and work with other illustrious names of the day including Sarah Bernhardt, Lillie Langtry, George Bernard Shaw, Alfred Lord Tennyson, J.M. Barrie, Thomas Beecham, Richard D’Oyly Carte, Queen Alexandra, King George V, but she also lived her personal life in a ménage à trois.Edy began dictating her memoirs soon after Ellen Terry died in 1928 and revised them after the Second World War, just before she died in 1947. Now the memoirs are ready for all to read, complete with a lavish colourful collection of 64 rare photos and illustrations.Edy was a Lady is a fabulous feast of recollections from one who for so long lived happily in the shadow of her mother, but is now in the spotlight in her own right.

Portraits to the Wall

Author : Rose Collis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474287077
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Portraits to the Wall written by Rose Collis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-06 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on British and European women, this is an accessible study of lesbian history since the 17th century. Each chapter documents and examines a woman's life and work, or the nature of a particular partnership. Some of the women featured are famous, such as Greta Garbo, Ethel Smyth, Eve Balfour and Queen Anne, while others have been forgotten or undocumented. Collis's study raises many profound and seminal issues including the visibility of lesbians in different social contexts, the influence of social status and background on their ability to be open about their sexuality, the importance of sexuality to contemporary women, and the existence and creation of role models.

Ellen Terry

Author : Joy Melville
Publisher : Haus Pub.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Ellen Terry written by Joy Melville and published by Haus Pub.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lavishly illustrated biography about Victorian actress - no competing title

A Strange Eventful History

Author : Michael Holroyd
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429939044
Total Pages : 772 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book A Strange Eventful History written by Michael Holroyd and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2010-03-02 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PLEASE NOTE: THIS EBOOK DOES NOT CONTAIN PHOTOS INCLUDED IN THE PRINT EDITION. Deemed "a prodigy among biographers" by The New York Times Book Review, Michael Holroyd transformed biography into an art. Now he turns his keen observation, humane insight, and epic scope on an ensemble cast, a remarkable dynasty that presided over the golden age of theater. Ellen Terry was an ethereal beauty, the child bride of a Pre-Raphaelite painter who made her the face of the age. George Bernard Shaw was so besotted by her gifts that he could not bear to meet her, lest the spell she cast from the stage be broken. Henry Irving was an ambitious, harsh-voiced merchant's clerk, but once he painted his face and spoke the lines of Shakespeare, his stammer fell away to reveal a magnetic presence. He would become one of the greatest actor-managers in the history of the theater. Together, Terry and Irving created a powerhouse of the arts in London's Lyceum Theatre, with Bram Stoker—who would go on to write Dracula—as manager. Celebrities whose scandalous private lives commanded global attention, they took America by stormin wildly popular national tours. Their all-consuming professional lives left little room for their brilliant but troubled children. Henry's boys followed their father into the theater but could not escape the shadow of his fame. Ellen's feminist daughter, Edy, founded an avant-garde theater and a largely lesbian community at her mother's country home. But it was Edy's son, the revolutionary theatrical designer Edward Gordon Craig, who possessed the most remarkable gifts and the most perplexing inability to realize them. A now forgotten modernist visionary, he collaborated with the Russian director Stanislavski on a production of Hamlet that forever changed the way theater was staged. Maddeningly self-absorbed, he inherited his mother's potent charm and fathered thirteen children by eight women, including a daughter with the dancer Isadora Duncan. An epic story spanning a century of cultural change, A Strange Eventful History finds space for the intimate moments of daily existence as well as the bewitching fantasies played out by its subjects. Bursting with charismatic life, it is an incisive portrait of two families who defied the strictures of their time. It will be swiftly recognized as a classic. Please note: This ebook edition does not contain photos and illustrations that appeared in the print edition.

Innocent Flowers

Author : Julie Holledge
Publisher : Virago
ISBN 13 : 1405525738
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book Innocent Flowers written by Julie Holledge and published by Virago. This book was released on 2013-04-11 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Edwardian actress, glamorous and privileged, was the sex symbol of her time. Yet her life was a paradox: off stage she could marry, divorce and take lovers with impugnity; on stage she had to play dutiful wives or daughters or 'scarlet women'. Thousands of these spirited women set out to change the conventional roles they played - and to change the world. Some of them were famous - Athene Seyler, Kitty Marion, Elizabeth Robins, Edy Craig, many others unknown. Managing their own companies, they put on hundreds of plays all over the country - many on taboo subjects such as divorce, sex, venereal disease, prostitution - by little known playwrights as well as established dramatists like Shaw, Ibsen, Barrie. They took the establishment theatre by storm; and they made their mark on the political stage too, forming the Actresses' Franchise League and joining the battle for the vote. Innocent Flowers tells the story of these astonishing women (and includes some of their plays). By tracing their lives and loves, Julie Holledge has rediscovered an inspiring period in the history of women and the theatre.

Cats of the National Trust

Author : Amy Feldman
Publisher : National Trust
ISBN 13 : 1911358642
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book Cats of the National Trust written by Amy Feldman and published by National Trust. This book was released on 2018-10-26 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Sir Winston Churchill to Ellen Terry; Beatrix Potter to Vita Sackville-West: many of the National Trust’s former residents were cat-lovers. Cats of the National Trust explores these feline fanatics and the animals (or animal objects) with which they filled their homes. Each entry includes gorgeous photos and accompanying text describing the collection item, person or animal in the photo and their relevance to the Trust. In Cats of the National Trust, we’ll meet Sir Winston Churchill, who requested that a marmalade cat with a white bib and four white socks should always be in (comfortable) residence at Chartwell, Kent. Thomas Hardy’s ‘Snowdove’ is buried at Max Gate, Dorset; Hardy wrote ‘Last Words to a Dumb Friend’ in eulogy. Discover Victorian actress Ellen Terry, who transported ‘Boo-boo’ between her homes in London and Smallhythe, Kent, and Betty Hussey, who crammed Scotney Castle full of feline objects; its current occupant, a cat named Betsy, can sometimes be found roaming the halls. Together with modern-day examples, Cats of the National Trust is an amusing and heart-warming guide to National Trust pets – and the people who revered them.

Gender and Politics in the Age of Letter-Writing, 1750–2000

Author : Máire Cross
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315317931
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (153 download)

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Download or read book Gender and Politics in the Age of Letter-Writing, 1750–2000 written by Máire Cross and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letters have long been an outlet for political expression, whether they articulate the personal politics of the daily routine or the political views of individuals who witness or participate in dramatic events. In addition, letters can be unusually revealing records of the relations between men and women. Though letters have frequently been studied as a privileged space for literary, social, and cultural expression, the three-dimensional relationship of politics, gender, and letters has not been the focus of an entire volume. The nineteen essays in this collection examine how the gendered nature of political literacy is revealed over a 250-year period through letter writing, whether the writer is famous or unknown, the wife of a prominent politician or activist, a political prisoner or political militant. Ranging wide in terms of subject matter and geography, the contributors examine correspondence that ponders familial concerns, as well as letters providing political commentary on the effects of war or revolution on everyday life. Among the impressive group of international scholars are Jim Allen, Clare Brant, Edith Gelles, Jane Rendall, and Siân Reynolds.

Triangles

Author : Ellen Hopkins
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451626347
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Triangles written by Ellen Hopkins and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-06-26 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three female friends face midlife crises in a no-holds-barred exploration of sex, marriage, and the fragility of life.

High Priestess and Empress

Author : Susan Wands
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1684632358
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (846 download)

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Download or read book High Priestess and Empress written by Susan Wands and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-05-14 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On her return to London, artist and seer Pamela Colman Smith discovers that her nemesis, Aleister Crowley, has returned—and his sights are set on her. Despite Aleister’s efforts to stop Pamela from further developing her tarot deck and accessing its magic, she carries on casting her High Priestess and Empress muses, Golden Dawn society leader Florence Farr and popular theatre star Ellen Terry. But when Ellen is poisoned and nearly killed, Pamela realizes that Aleister won’t stop coming for her—not until her muses are dead. When Aleister reveals his plot to assassinate Queen Victoria and all female rulers, war breaks out between the Aleister’s Carlists and the Golden Dawn. With so many lives on the line—that of the queen, and those of her friends—Pamela must access her inner magic to face the battle of her life.

Ellen Terry, Player in Her Time

Author : Nina Auerbach
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812216134
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book Ellen Terry, Player in Her Time written by Nina Auerbach and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1997-01-29 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nina Auerbach brilliantly reveals the Ellen Terry whose roles, on stage and off, embodied everything that a rapidly changing world exhorted women to be.

Television Specials

Author : Vincent Terrace
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786474440
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Television Specials written by Vincent Terrace and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-07-03 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a complete revision of the author's 1993 McFarland book Television Specials that not only updates entries contained within that edition, but adds numerous programs not previously covered, including beauty pageants, parades, awards programs, Broadway and opera adaptations, musicals produced especially for television, holiday specials (e.g., Christmas and New Year's Eve), the early 1936-1947 experimental specials, honors specials. In short, this is a reference work to 5,336 programs--the most complete source for television specials ever published.

Pamela Colman Smith, Tarot Artist

Author : Dawn Robinson
Publisher : Fonthill Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pamela Colman Smith, Tarot Artist written by Dawn Robinson and published by Fonthill Media. This book was released on 2020-05-29 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pamela Colman Smith is the mysterious artist behind the most renowned tarot deck in the world, for many years forgotten. In a revival of interest in esoteric artists and accessible tarot, curiosity about Pamela is now on the ascendant, but there are still many unanswered questions, especially concerning her later life. Born in London to American parents, Pamela was a prolific illustrator and artist who mixed with the great and good of art and theatre, among them W. B. Yeats and Bram Stoker. 'Adopted' by actress Ellen Terry, she spent some years with the Lyceum Theatre crowd, also working as an exotic storyteller, known as Gelukiezanger, in bohemian London. People have questioned her sexuality, her ethnic origins and alleged synaesthesia, assuming her to be biracial and lesbian. These are discussed but the biggest mystery of all is why she converted from mysticism to Catholicism in 1911, removing herself from vibrant London to the isolated Lizard in the west of Cornwall. There, living in relative obscurity, she evangelised Catholicism in a heavily non-conformist area, before moving to Bude in her sixties.

Ellen Terry

Author : Roger Manvell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Ellen Terry written by Roger Manvell and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of a remarkable woman and one of the greatest actresses of her time.

Magician and Fool

Author : Susan Wands
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1684631874
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (846 download)

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Download or read book Magician and Fool written by Susan Wands and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-05-02 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pamela Colman Smith, newly arrived from New York to her birthplace of London, is received as an oddball in Victorian society. Her second sight helps her in her new job: illustrating tarot cards for the Golden Dawn, a newly formed occult group. But when Pamela refuses to share her creations with Aleister Crowley, a controversial magician, he issues a threat: give up the cards’ power, or he’ll harm her muses. In the midst of this battle, two of Pamela’s idols, the actors Henry Irving and William Terriss, take her under their wing. Henry, who tutors her as the leader of the Lyceum Theatre, becomes the muse for her Magician card. William Terriss, teaching her by examples of instinct and courage, becomes the muse for her Fool card. As Pamela begins to create the tarot deck, she is almost overwhelmed by the race to possess the magical power of her cards. In order to defeat Aleister, Henry and William will have to transform into living incarnations of the Magician and the Fool—and Pamela will have to learn how to conjure her own magic.

Shaw

Author : Fred D. Crawford
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271014227
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book Shaw written by Fred D. Crawford and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 1995-06-21 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the annual edition of new studies of Shaw's life, influence and work.

Edy

Author : Eleanor Adlard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Edy written by Eleanor Adlard and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pretty/Funny

Author : Linda Mizejewski
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292756917
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Pretty/Funny written by Linda Mizejewski and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-03-01 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women in comedy have traditionally been pegged as either "pretty" or "funny." Attractive actresses with good comic timing such as Katherine Hepburn, Lucille Ball, and Julia Roberts have always gotten plum roles as the heroines of romantic comedies and television sitcoms. But fewer women who write and perform their own comedy have become stars, and, most often, they've been successful because they were willing to be funny-looking, from Fanny Brice and Phyllis Diller to Lily Tomlin and Carol Burnett. In this pretty-versus-funny history, women writer-comedians—no matter what they look like—have ended up on the other side of "pretty," enabling them to make it the topic and butt of the joke, the ideal that is exposed as funny. Pretty/Funny focuses on Kathy Griffin, Tina Fey, Sarah Silverman, Margaret Cho, Wanda Sykes, and Ellen DeGeneres, the groundbreaking women comics who flout the pretty-versus-funny dynamic by targeting glamour, postfeminist girliness, the Hollywood A-list, and feminine whiteness with their wit and biting satire. Linda Mizejewski demonstrates that while these comics don't all identify as feminists or take politically correct positions, their work on gender, sexuality, and race has a political impact. The first major study of women and humor in twenty years, Pretty/Funny makes a convincing case that women's comedy has become a prime site for feminism to speak, talk back, and be contested in the twenty-first century.