ELLEN TERRY
AND HER SISTERS.
Photographed by Window & Grove.
ELLEN TERRY AS PORTIA.
She first appeared in this part, one of the greatest of her Shakespearean creations, at theold Prince of Wales's Theatre in 1875, and resumed it at the Lyceum in 1879.
Frontispiece.
ELLEN TERRY
AND HER SISTERS
BY
T. EDGAR PEMBERTON
AUTHOR OF
"THE KENDALS;" "A MEMOIR OF E. A. SOTHERN;" "THE LIFE AND WRITINGS
OF T. W. ROBERTSON;" "CHARLES DICKENS AND THE STAGE;"
"JOHN HARE, COMEDIAN;" "BRET HARTE: A
TREATISE AND A TRIBUTE;"
ETC. ETC.
WITH TWENTY-FIVE ILLUSTRATIONS
LONDON
C. ARTHUR PEARSON, LIMITED
HENRIETTA STREET
1902
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
"THE KENDALS"
Demy 8vo, with Portraits and numerous Illustrations.
Price 16s.
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LONDON: C. ARTHUR PEARSON, LIMITED
April 11, 1901.
My dear Friend,—
You tell me that if I give you leave you can weave astory about me that will interest your readers. If that be so, you havemy full permission to tell it, and it will please me to do anything inmy power to assist you in your work. Whilst writing about me you will,I am sure, speak of those with whom I have been closely associated inmy acting life, and make mention of the affectionate regard in which Ihold them.
Your intimate knowledge of all that concerns the stage will at leastkeep you right as to the facts of your pages.
I suppose I must leave the fancy of them in yourhands.
Yours cordially,
ELLEN TERRY.
To
T. EDGAR PEMBERTON.
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