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Ellen Alicia Terry
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
or VIII., and Cordelia in 1892, Imogen in 1896, and Volumnia, in Coriolanus, in 1901. Other notable performances were those of the Queen in Wills's Charles I. in 1879, Camma in Tennyson's The Cup in 1881, Margaret in Wills's Faust in 1885, and the title-part in Charles Reade's one-act play Nance Oldfield (1893), Rosamund in Tennyson's Becket (1893), Madame Sans-Gene in Sardou's play (1897), and Clarisse in Robespierre (1899). With the Lyceum company she several times visited the United States. In 1902, while still acting with Sir Henry Irving, she appeared with Mrs Kendal in Beerbohm Tree's revival of The Merry Wives of Windsor, at His Majesty's theatre,' and she continued, after Sir Henry Irving's death, to act at different theatres, notably at the Court theatre (1905) in some of G. Bernard Shaw's plays. In 1906 her stage-jubilee was celebrated in London with much enthusiasm, a popular subscription in England and America resulting in some X8,000 being raised. In 5907 Miss Terry married James Carew, an American actor.
Her sister Marion Terry (b. 1856) became only less distin guished on the English stage than herself; and her brother Fred Terry (b. 1865) also became a leading actor, and a successful manager in association with his wife, the actress Julia Neilson.
See Charles Hiatt, Ellen Terry and her Impersonations (1898); Clement Scott, Ellen Terry.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Ellen Alicia Terry'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/e/ellen-alicia-terry.html. 1910.
