Ellen Terry and Edith Craig Database

Further reading

Primary texts

  • Anon., [Christopher St John], 1915. Hungerheart: The Story of a Soul, London: Methuen.
  • Cockin, Katharine (ed.) Ellen Terry: The Collected Letters 1862-1888 Vol. 1, London: Pickering & Chatto, 2010.
  • Cockin, Katharine (ed.) Ellen Terry: The Collected Letters 1889-1893 Vol. 2, London: Pickering & Chatto, 2011.
  • Cockin, Katharine (ed.) Ellen Terry: The Collected Letters 1894-1898 Vol. 3, London: Pickering & Chatto, 2012.
  • Cockin, Katharine (ed.) Ellen Terry: The Collected Letters 1899-1905 Vol. 4, London: Pickering & Chatto, 2013.
  • Cockin, Katharine (ed.) Ellen Terry: The Collected Letters 1906-1913 Vol. 5, London: Pickering & Chatto, 2014.
  • Cockin, Katharine (ed.) Ellen Terry: The Collected Letters 1914-1928 Vol. 6, London: Pickering & Chatto, 2015.
  • Cockin, Katharine (ed.) Ellen Terry: Lives of the Shakespearian Actors, London: Pickering & Chatto, 2012.
  • Craig, Edith and St John, Christopher (eds) 1933. Ellen Terry's Memoirs, London Gollancz.
  • Craig, Edward Gordon, 1930. Henry Irving, London: J. M. Dent.
  • Craig, Edward Gordon, 1931. Ellen Terry and Her Secret Self, London: Sampson Low.
  • Craig, Edward Gordon, 1957. Index to the Story of My Days, London: Hutton.
  • Gielgud, Kate Terry, 1953. An Autobiography, London: Max Reinhardt.
  • Rachlin, Ann (ed.) 2011. Edy Was a Lady, Leicester: Matador.
  • St John, Christopher (ed.) 1931. Shaw-Terry: A Correspondence, London: Constable.
  • St John, Christopher, 1932. Ellen Terry: Four Lectures on Shakespeare, London: Martin Hopkinson.
  • Terry, Ellen, 1908. The Story of My Life, London: Hutchinson.
  • Terry, Ellen, 1913. The Russian Ballet, London: Sidgwick & Jackson.

Biographies

  • Adlard, Eleanor (ed.) 1949. Edy: Recollections of Edith Craig, London: Mueller.
  • Auerbach, Nina, 1987. Ellen Terry: Player in Her Time, London: Phoenix.
  • Cockin, Katharine, 1998. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives, London: Cassell.
  • Cockin, Katharine, 2017. Edith Craig and the Theatres of Art, London: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama.
  • Craig, Edward, 1968 Gordon Craig: The Story of His Life, London: Victor Gollancz.
  • Hiatt, Charles 1899. Ellen Terry, London: George Bell.
  • Holroyd, Michael, 2008. A Strange Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving and Their Remarkable Families, London: Chatto & Windus.
  • Irving, Laurence, 1951. Henry Irving: The Actor and His World, London: Macmillan.
  • Manvell, Roger, 1968. Ellen Terry, London: Heinemann.
  • Melville, Joy, 1987. Ellen and Edy, London: Pandora.
  • Melville, Joy, 2006. Ellen Terry, London: Haus.
  • Pemberton. T. Edgar, 1902. Ellen Terry and Her Sisters, London: Arthur Pearson.
  • Prideaux, Tom, 1976. Love or Nothing: The Life and Times of Ellen Terry, London: Millington.
  • Steen, Marguerite, 1962. A Pride of Terrys, London: Longmans.
  • Webster, Margaret, 1969. The Same Only Different , London: Victor Gollancz.

Criticism: books

  • Bingham, Madeleine, 1978. Henry Irving and the Victorian Theatre, London: 1978.
  • Cockin, Katharine, 2001. Women and Theatre in the Age of Suffrage: The Pioneer Players 1911-25, Basingstoke: Palgrave.
  • Cockin, Katharine (ed.), 2007. Women's Suffrage Drama: Volume Two, Women's Suffrage Literature, London Routledge.
  • Cockin, Katharine (ed.) 2011. Ellen Terry, Spheres of Influence, London: Pickering & Chatto.
  • Duncan, Sophie, 2016. Shakespeare's Women and the Fin de Siecle, Oxford: Oxford University Press. [chs. 2 & 4]
  • Foulkes, Richard (ed.) 1986. Shakespeare and the Victorian Stage, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Foulkes, Richard (ed.) 2008. Henry Irving: A Re-evaluation of the Pre-eminent Victorian Actor-Manager, London: Ashgate.
  • Gandolfi, Roberta, 2003. La prima regista: Edith Craig, Roma: Bulzone Editore.
  • Marshall, Gail, 1998. Actresses on the Victorian Stage: Feminine Performance and the Galatea Myth, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Richards, Jeffrey, 2005. Sir Henry Irving: A Victorian Actor and His World, Lodnon: Hambledon.
  • Russ, Macdonald, 2005. Look to the Lady: Sarah Siddons, Ellen Terry and Judi Dench on the Shakespearean Stage, Athens and London: Georgia University Press.

Criticism: articles and essays

  • Auerbach, Nina, 2003. 'Perturbed Spirits: Victorian Actors and Immortality', Victorian Shakespeare: Vol. 1, Theatre, Drama, Performance, New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Barstow, Susan Torrey, 1997. 'Ellen Terry and the Revolt of the Daughters', Nineteenth Century Theatre, 25, 1, 5-32.
  • Barstow, Susan Torrey, 2001. '"Hedda is all of us": Late Victorian Women at the Matinees', Victorian Studies, 43, 3, 387-411.
  • Cockin, Katharine, 1991. 'New Light on Edith Craig', Theatre Notebook, XLV, 3, 132-43.
  • Cockin, Katharine, 1994. 'The Pioneer Players: Plays of/with Identity', in Difference in View: Women in Modernism (ed.) Gabriele Griffin, London: Taylor and Francis, pp. 142-54.
  • Cockin, Katharine, 1998. 'Women's Suffrage Drama', in The Women's Suffrage Movement: New Feminist Essays (eds) Maroula Joannou and June Purvis, Manchester : Manchester University Press, pp. 127-39.
  • Cockin, Katharine, 2000. 'Three Women: Work, Marriage and the Old(er) Woman' in Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Optimist Reformer (eds) Gill Rudd and Val Gough, University of Iowa Press, pp. 74-92.
  • Cockin, Katharine, 2003. 'Ellen Terry, The Ghost Writer and the Laughing Statue: The Victorian Actress, Letters and Life-writing', Journal of European Studies, xxxii, 151-63.
  • Cockin, Katharine, 2004. 'Ellen Terry and Women's Suffrage Agitation' in Gender and Politics in the Age of Letter-writing 1750-2000 (eds) Caroline Bland and Maire Cros, London: Ashgate, pp. 201-12.
  • Cockin, Katharine, 2008. 'Ellen Terry and Henry Irving: A Working Partnership' in Henry Irving: A Re-evaluation of the Pre-eminent Victorian Actor-Manager, London: Ashgate, pp. 37-48.
  • Cockin, Katharine, 2015. 'Edith Craig and the Pioneer Players in a "Khaki-clad and khaki-minded World": London's International Art Theatre', in British Theatre and the Great War 1914-19: New Perspectives, ed. Andrew Maunder, Basingstoke: Palgrave, pp. 146-69.
  • Cockin, Katharine, 2016. 'Bram Stoker, Ellen Terry and Pamela Colman Smith: The Art of Devilry' in Bram Stoker and the Gothic: Formations and Transformations, ed. Catherine Wynne, Basingstoke: Palgrave, pp. 159-71.
  • Dymkowski, Christine, 1992. 'Entertaining Ideas: Edy Craig and the Pioneer Players', in The New Woman and Her Sisters, Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, pp. 221-33.
  • Farfan, Penny, 1998. 'Freshwater Revisited: Virginia Woolf on Ellen Terry and the Art of Acting, Woolf Studies Annual, 4, 3-17.
  • Ferris, Lesley, 1995. 'The Female Self and Performance: The Case of the First Actress', in Theatre and Feminist Aesthetic (eds) Karen Laughlin and Catherine Schuler, Cranbury New Jersey: Associated University Preses, pp. 242-57.
  • Kachur, B. A., 1999. 'Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale and the Art of Ellen Terry', Theatre History Studies, 19, 17-42.
  • Langstreth, Galen Goodwin, 2001. 'Epistolary Follies: Identity, Conversation and Performance in the Corespondence of Ellen Terry and Bernard Shaw', Shaw: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies, 21, 27-40.
  • Peters, Sally, 1992. 'A Paper Courtship: Bernard Shaw and Ellen Terry', Annals of Scholarship, 9, 3, 327-40.
  • Pye, Deborah, 2001. '"Irreproachable Woe and Patient Workers": The Memoirs of Victorian Leading Ladies, Texas Studies in Literature and Language, 73,-91.

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The Ellen Terry and Edith Craig Archives Database Project and the Ellen Terry Archive Website Project was supported by the University of Hull.