Ellen Terry
Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Terry
Charles Kean and Ellen Terry in 1856
Ellen Terry in 1856
Ellen Terry at Sixteen
“The Sisters” (Kate and Ellen Terry)
Ellen Terry at Seventeen
George Frederick Watts, R.A.
Ellen Terry as Helen in “The Hunchback”
Henry Irving
Head of a Young Girl (Ellen Terry)
Henry Irving
Ellen Terry as Portia
Henry Irving as Matthias in “The Bells”
Henry Irving as Philip of Spain
Henry Irving as Hamlet
Lily Langtry
William Terriss as Squire Thornhill in “Olivia”
Ellen Terry as Ophelia
Ellen Terry as Beatrice
Sir Henry Irving
Irving as Louis XI
Ellen Terry as Henrietta Maria
Ellen Terry as Camma in “The Cup”
Ellen Terry as Iolanthe
Ellen Terry as Letitia Hardy in “The Belle’s Stratagem”
Edwin Thomas Booth
Ellen Terry as Juliet
Two Portraits of Ellen Terry as Beatrice
Ellen Terry’s Favourite Photograph as Olivia
Eleanora Duse with Lenbach’s Child
Ellen Terry as Margaret in “Faust”
Ellen Terry as Ellaline in “The Amber Heart”
Miss Ellen Terry in 1883
The Bas-relief Portrait of Robert Louis Stevenson
Miss Terry and Sir Henry Irving
Sarah Holland, Ellen Terry’s Dresser
Miss Rosa Corder
Miss Ellen Terry with her Fox-terriers
Miss Ellen Terry in 1898
Sir Henry Irving
Miss Ellen Terry
Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth
Sir Henry Irving
Ellen Terry as Lucy Ashton in “Ravenswood”
Henry Irving as Cardinal Wolsey in “Henry VIII.”
Ellen Terry as Nance Oldfield
Ellen Terry as Kniertje in “The Good Hope”
Ellen Terry as Imogen
Henry Irving as Becket
Sir Henry Irving
Ellen Terry as Rosamund in “Becket”
Ellen Terry as Guinevere in “King Arthur”
“Olivia”
Miss Terry’s Garden at Winchelsea
Ellen Terry as Hermione in “The Winter’s Tale”
INTRODUCTION
“When I read the book,
the biography famous,
And is this then (said I)
what the author calls a man’s life?
And so will some one when
I am dead and gone write my life?
(As if any man really knew
aught of my life!)
Why even I myself, I often
think, know little or nothing of my real
life.
Only a few hints—a
few diffused faint clues and indirections
I seek ... to trace out here.”
Walt Whitman.
For years I have contemplated telling this story, and for years I have put off telling it. While I have delayed, my memory has not improved, and my recollections of the past are more hazy and fragmentary than when it first occurred to me that one day I might write them down.