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In A Strange Eventful History, one of our greatest living biographers turns his attention to a gruop of historys most influential performers, a remarkable dynasty that presided over the golden age of theater.
Ellen Terry was ther eras most powerful actress. George Bernard Shaw was so besotted that he wrote her letters almost daily, but could not bear to meet her, lest the spell she cast from the stage be broken. Henry Irving was a merchants clerk who by force of will and wit became one of the greatest actor-managers in the history of the theater. Together, Irving and Terry presided over a powerhouse of the arts in Londons Lyceum Theatre and revived English theater as a popular art form.
Exactingly researched and bursting with charismatic life, this epic story follows Terry and Irving and their brilliant but volatile children--among them Terrys son, Edward Gordon Craig, the revolutionary theatrical designer. A Strange Eventful History is more than an account of the great classical age of London theater; it is a potrait of nineteenth-century society on the precipice of great change.
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Nonfiction
Hugh Kingsmill
Unreceived Opinions
Lytton Strachey
Augustus John
Bernard Shaw
Basil Street Blues
Works on Paper
Mosaic
Fiction
A Dogs Life
As Editor
The Best of Hugh Kingsmill
Lytton Strachey by Himself
The Art of Augustus John (with Malcolm Easton)
The Genius of Shaw
The Shorter Strachey (with Paul Levy)
William Gerhardies Gods Fifth Column (with Robert Skidelsky)
MICHAEL HOLROYD
A STRANGE
EVENTFUL
HISTORY
The Dramatic Lives of
Ellen Terry, Henry Irving,
and Their Remarkable Families
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
NEW YORK
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
18 West 18th Street, New York 10011
Copyright 2008 by Michael Holroyd
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
Originally published in 2008 by Chatto & Windus, Great Britain
Published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
First American edition, 2009
Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint excerpts from The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume II: 19201924, copyright 1978 by Quentin Bell and Angelica Garnett.
Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Corporation.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Holroyd, Michael.
A strange eventful history : the dramatic lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving, and their remarkable families / Michael Holroyd. 1st American ed.
Includes bibliographical references (p.) and index.
ISBN-13: 978-0-374-27080-3
ISBN-10: 0-374-27080-5
1. Terry, Ellen, Dame, 18471928. 2. Irving, Henry, Sir, 18381905. 3. Actresses Great BritainBiography. 4. ActorsGreat BritainBiography. 5. Theatrical managersGreat BritainBiography. I. Title
PN2598.T4 H65 2009
792.028092241dc22
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2008048330
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1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2
To Maggie
without whom
I could not have finished this book
All comedy, is tragedy, if you only look deep enough into it.
Thomas Hardy in a letter to John Addington Symonds,
14 April 1889
1 A Story in a Book
2 The Terrys
3 Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall
4 Heaven and Holland Park
5 Englands Michelangelo
6 The Kingdom of Pattledom
7 A Marriage Is Arranged and a Deed of Separation Signed
8 The Kate Terry Valse
9 Found Drowned
10 Happiness for a Time
11 All Change
12 A Failure to Be Proud Of
13 Men!
14 Whats in a Name?
15 Entrances and Exits
16 Their Coronation
17 Our Lady of the Lyceum
18 Interval: Irving on Holiday
19 His Shylock
20 Shakespeares Lovers
21 Children!
22 Our American Cousins
23 From Malvolio to Mephistopheles
24 Death of a Husband, Death of a Lover
25 Her Lady Macbeth
26 Ted and Edy and Harry and Laurence
27 All Is True
28 After the Shooting
29 Counter Attractions
30 One More Laurel Wreath
31 Mixed Fortunes
32 The Irish Pretender
33 Wishful Thinking
34 Choices
35 Confusions
36 For Love or Money
37 Made in Heaven
38 A Sea of Troubles: Helgeland and Hungerheart
39 The End of Irving
40 Women!
41 Brothers
PART SIX
42 Family Affairs
43 Masks and Faces
44 Not Quite Alone
45 The Long Game of Patience
46 An Occasion
47 For Friendships Sake
48 Good Night Unto You All
49 White Candle, Aged Face
Title and part-title illustrations
Decorative roundels from Cranach Press edition of Hamlet, EGC, wood-engravings, 1929-30
Text illustrations
49 Caricature of Ellen Terry [ET] by herself, in a letter to her sister Kate, 1867
61 Fallows Green, Harpenden
77 Design for Ellen Terrys headdress as Juliet, E.W. Godwin, 1875
118 Portrait of Ellen Terry and Henry Irving, from the souvenir programme of Madame Sans-Gne, 1897
146 Bookplate for Edy Craig, EGC, 1898
222 Bookplate for ET at Winchelsea, EGC, 1898
306 Candlebearer I, EGC, Black Figure wood-engraving, 1912
329 Bookplate for Christopher St John, EGC, 1899
338 Bookplate for Elena Meo, EGC, 1901
364 Sketch of Henry Irving, Paul Renouard, ca. 1885
370 Bookplate for Isadora Duncan, EGC, 1905
372 Isadora reading in the woods near Berlin, EGC, 1905
391 Gordon Craig soaring through Stanislavskis hoop, in a letter to Edy Craig, EGC, 1913
435 Bookplate for Dorothy Nevile Lees, EGC, 1908
437 Colophon for The Mask, EGC, wood-engraving
457 Decorated menu for EGCs dinner at the Caf Royal, Albert Rutherston, 16 July 1911
467 Beauty, inspired by Constance Krayl, EGC, Black Figure wood-engraving, 1914
482 King Lear in the Storm, EGC, wood-engraving, 1920
520 Bookplate for Daphne Woodward, EGC, 1929
531 Design for the Barn Theatre emblem, EGC, wood-engraving
557 Bookplate for Two Two, EGC, 1951
574 Candlebearer 3, EGC, Black Figure wood-engraving, 1912
Plates
Section One
1 Ellen Terry, aged nine, 1856
2 Ellen Terry in Japanese dress, Samuel Walker, 1873
3 Ellen Terry as Ophelia, 1878
4 Sadness (Ellen Terry), Julia Margaret Cameron, 1864
5 The Terry family in London, Revd Charles Dodgson, 1865
6 Edy Craig at home, ca. 1874
7 Gordon Craig in a production of Much Ado About Nothing, New York, 1885
8 Ellen Terry with her children, Frederick Hollyer, 1888
9 G.F. Watts with hat, Julia Margaret Cameron, 1864
10 E.W. Godwin
11 Charles Kelly
12 James Carew
13 Charles Reade
14 Stephen Coleridge, aged nineteen
15 Sarah Bernhardt as Adrienne Lecouvreur, 1887
16 Eleonora Duse
17 W.G. Wills
18 Tom Taylor
19 John Henry Brodribb, 1856
20 Sir Henry Irving
21 Henry Irving at Winchelsea
22 Elizabeth Aria
23 Henry Irving making-up, Paul Renouard
24 Henry Irving as Hamlet, 1863
25 Henry Irving as Becket
26 Henry Irving as Shylock
27 Lyceum company aboard SS Arizona, returning from America, 1885
28 Florence Irving with her sons Laurence and Harry
Section Two
1 Choosing (Ellen Terry), G.F. Watts, 1864
2 The Sisters (Ellen and Kate Terry), G.F. Watts, 1862-3
3 The Wife of Pluto (Ellen Terry), G.F. Watts, 1865-89
4 Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth, John Singer Sargent, 1889
5 Arrangement in Black No. 3 (Henry Irving as Philip II of Spain), James Abbott McNeill Whistler, 1876
6 Self-portrait sketch as Don Quixote, Henry Irving, 1895
7 Henry Irving, Jules Bastien-Lepage, 1880
8 Poster of Ellen Terry as Hiordis in Ibsens The Vikings of Helgeland, 1903
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