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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.

 
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.

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.

 

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.

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.

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.

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.