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Nina Auerbach brilliantly reveals the Ellen Terry whose roles, on stage and off, embodied everything that a rapidly changing world exhorted women to be.
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.
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A lavishly illustrated biography about Victorian actress - no competing title
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This volume is a biography of Ellen Terry and her daughter Edith "Edy" Craig. Terry lived during the reign of Queen Victoria when women were required to live according to the strictest of moral codes. She broke the rules of that code, marrying three times, and living with her lover, Edward Godwin by whom she had two illegitimate children. Yet, she demonstrates in her life and in her beliefs the concerns of her age and, despite her huge public fame, she has remained an enigmatic figure. Her daughter, Edith Craig, was a talented theatre producer and costume designer, an advocate of women's suffrage and who lived for most of her life with another woman, Christopher St John. The author focuses on the everyday lives, and the loves, of Ellen and Edy. While she follows Ellen's adventures in England and America and her relations with, among others, Edward Godwin, Henry Irving and George Bernard Shaw, this is above all the story of the stormy, mutually possessive, but ultimately strong and loving bond between a remarkable mother and daughter.