The marriage of Ellen Terry and G F Watts

The marriage of Ellen Terry and G F Watts was not a success but what I hadn't heard before was Watts’ surrounded his “child-wife” with a little court of his middle aged female friends, who subjected Terry to humiliating surveillance and made sure she did not to open her mouth in front of Watts’ distinguished guests. 

After ten months of marriage, she ran away with a progressive architect, Edward Godwin. She left a note containing only two words, “Found Drowned”, attached to a photograph of Watts. The reference is to a painting by Watts, which, as Terry said, depicted “the wreck of a young girl’s life”.

Ellen Terry, James Carew

Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth By John Singer Sargent. Tate Britain.

Ellen Terry Bedroom

Ellen Terry's house in Kent

Ellen Terry

Sisters - G F Watts

19th Century stage star Ellen Terry: in 1923 silent film and 1911 recording of "Quality Of Mercy"

Window and Grove - Ellen Terry

Dame Ellen Terry as Katherine of Aragon Shakespeare Henry VIII

1892 picture of Victorian actress Dame Ellen Terry (1847-1928) as William Shakespeare's Queen Katherine of Aragon in his play Henry VIII. Dame Ellen is wearing a costume designed for a production of Henry VIII at the Lyceum in London by Sir Henry Irving (1838-1905).

I can't find the artist of this - gnash.

George Frederic Watts - Ellen Terry Asleep

http://www.georgefredericwatts.org/Ellen-Terry-Asleep.html

A flyaway success: Victorian dress made from 1,000 beetle wings restored at a cost of £50,000

A Victorian dress made from 1,000 beetle wings that was worn by one of the most famous actresses of the era has been restored at a cost of £50,000.

The emerald and sea green gown - worn by Ellen Terry when she played Lady Macbeth at London's Lyceum Theatre in 1888 - will now go on display in Smallhythe Place, Kent.

It is covered with the iridescent wings of the jewel beetle which the insects naturally shed as part of their life cycle.



Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1366616/Victorian-beetle-wing-dress-worn-Ellen-Terry-display-50k-repair-job.html#ixzz1Gk3q8JqM

Ellen Terry c. 1890 - Frederick Hollyer

Ellen Terry (and G F Watts)

"A Strange Eventful History"
by Michael Holroyd
Farrar, Straus & Giroux

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123629669206045963.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Terry