Book contents
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- List of Contributors
- List of Figures and Tables
- Introduction: Ellen Terry and Her Circle – Formal Introductions and Informal Encounters
- Part I Ellen Terry's Influences on Others
- Part II Family Influences
- 6 Introduction: Edward Gordon Craig – Prophet or Charlatan?
- 7 E. W. G. and E. G. C.: Father and Son
- 8 Lewis Carroll, Ellen Terry and the Stage Career of Menella ‘Minna’ Quin: ‘A Very Kind and Christian Deed’
- 9 Edith Craig as Director: Staging Claudel in the War Years
- 10 Velona Pilcher and Dame Ellen Terry (1926)
- 11 Ellen Terry: Preserving the Relics and Creating the Brand
- 12 Describing the Ellen Terry and Edith Craig Archive
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
8 - Lewis Carroll, Ellen Terry and the Stage Career of Menella ‘Minna’ Quin: ‘A Very Kind and Christian Deed’
from Part II - Family Influences
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- List of Contributors
- List of Figures and Tables
- Introduction: Ellen Terry and Her Circle – Formal Introductions and Informal Encounters
- Part I Ellen Terry's Influences on Others
- Part II Family Influences
- 6 Introduction: Edward Gordon Craig – Prophet or Charlatan?
- 7 E. W. G. and E. G. C.: Father and Son
- 8 Lewis Carroll, Ellen Terry and the Stage Career of Menella ‘Minna’ Quin: ‘A Very Kind and Christian Deed’
- 9 Edith Craig as Director: Staging Claudel in the War Years
- 10 Velona Pilcher and Dame Ellen Terry (1926)
- 11 Ellen Terry: Preserving the Relics and Creating the Brand
- 12 Describing the Ellen Terry and Edith Craig Archive
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
Summary
Best known as the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There (1871), Lewis Carroll (born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) was a man of many interests and accomplishments: a mathematics don at Christ Church, Oxford, a Church of England priest, a pioneer photographer and an ardent theatregoer. It was not until he was twenty-four that Carroll ventured inside a professional theatre, the Princess's in London's Oxford Street where the manager, Charles Kean, was succeeding in attracting the respectable middle-classes to a form of entertainment that they had long regarded as morally suspect. Lavish Shakespeare revivals painstakingly researched for historical accuracy in sets, costumes, etc. were the hallmark of Kean's productions, but he also engaged a strong acting company of which juvenile performers were a particular feature, most notably the precocious talent of the Terry sisters, Kate and Ellen. Carroll's connection with Ellen Terry stretched over four decades from 16 June 1856, when in Kean's revival of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale he ‘especially admired the acting of little Mamillius, Ellen Terry, a beautiful little creature, who played with remarkable ease and spirit’, to 26 August 1897, within a few months of his death at the age of sixty-six on 14 January 1898, when, whilst on his annual summer holiday in Eastbourne, he ‘Went to the Albion, where Ellen Terry is now staying’, the reason being that her daughter Edith Craig was appearing there on tour with Janet Achurch (Mrs Charrington).
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- Ellen Terry, Spheres of Influence , pp. 93 - 106Publisher: Pickering & ChattoFirst published in: 2014