{"product_id":"ellen-terry-and-bernard-shaw-a-correspondence","title":"Ellen Terry and Bernard Shaw: A Correspondence","description":"xl, 370 pp. Green cloth boards with gilt title on spine, gilt decor on front board, top edge gilt. Ellen Terry, in full Alice Ellen Terry, (born February 27, 1847, Coventry, Warwickshire, England—died July 21, 1928, Small Hythe, Kent), English actress who became one of the most popular stage performers in both Great Britain and North America. For 24 years (1878–1902) she worked as the leading lady of Sir Henry Irving in one of the most famous partnerships in the theatre. In the 1890s she began her famous “paper courtship” with George Bernard Shaw, one of the most brilliant correspondences in the history of English letter writing. Terry was the second surviving daughter in a large family of which several members were to become well known on the stage. She had no formal schooling, but, trained by her parents, she rapidly developed into a celebrated child actress. At the age of nine she made her debut in the child’s part of Mamillius in The Winter’s Tale, which Charles Kean, son of the actor Edmund Kean, produced in London in April 1856. She remained in Kean’s company until 1859 and later joined the stock company performing at the Theatre Royal, Bristol, where she played leading parts in Shakespeare and in repertory theatre. - Britannica. George Bernard Shaw, (born July 26, 1856, Dublin, Ireland—died November 2, 1950, Ayot St. Lawrence, Hertfordshire, England), Irish comic dramatist, literary critic, and socialist propagandist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925. - Britannica.","brand":"The Fountain Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40669636526150,"sku":"2336344","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1232\/9510\/products\/2336344.jpg?v=1691694062","url":"https:\/\/ym-demo.myshopify.com\/products\/ellen-terry-and-bernard-shaw-a-correspondence","provider":"Yesterday's Muse","version":"1.0","type":"link"}