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Ellen Terry (1847-1928) rose to fame as an actress in the 19th century, when her stage partnership with Henry Irving at London’s Lyceum Theatre drew capacity crowds. She was notorious for flaunting the moral code of her day, marrying three times - first, at 17, to the painter G F Watts (who sent her back to her parents after a few months with a sum of £300 a year ‘so long as she shall lead a chaste life’) - and then living with her lover, Edward Godwin by whom she had two illegitimate children. A perfectionist on stage, she was cruelly forced to continue to act beyond a point she found appropriate in order to earn enough money to support her children: ‘Look at me, 61 and still doing one-night stands’, she said to a friend. As her sight and memory worsened, and her partnership with Irving ended, her acting career closed. She reinvented herself as a lecturer, touring Britain and America speaking on Shakespeare’s heroines.
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Joy Melville is the author of Ellen and Edy, the life of Ellen Terry and her daughter Edith Craig. She is a well-known writer on social issues and has written extensively on British child migrants to Australia. She is also the author of two biographies on very special women: Mother of Oscar - The Life of Jane Francesca Wilde and Julia Margaret Cameron - Pioneer Photographer. She lives in London.
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"A welcome record of a rather neglected woman who . . . scandalised the staid Victorians" --Publishing News
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- PublisherHaus Publishing
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 1904950140
- ISBN 13 9781904950141
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages256
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