867309

Portrait of Edith Craig 1869-1947, painted by #867309

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Portrait of Edith Craig 1869-1947, painted by #867309
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Ellen Terry's oldest child, Edith Craig, would have a symbiotic relationship with her mother throughout her life, ultimately becoming her caretaker and guardian. Like Gordon Craig, Edith's artistic talents would be put to good use: she was a theatre producer, costume designer and founder of the Pioneer Players; she was also a suffragette and lived most of her adult life with another woman, Christopher St. John, who would edit both Ellen's The Story of My Life and the Shaw-Terry correspondence. Edith's relationship with her mother was both complicated and tenuous; she did not suffer fools nor would she temper her what many perceived to be her brusque manner.. However, she was much beloved in her circle of theatrical friends and did much to perpetuate Ellen Terry's memory following her mother's death. Edith Craig is also renown for living in a ménage a trios with both the writer Christopher St. John (formerly Christabel Marshall) and the artist, Clare ("Tony") Atwood from the mid-teens until her death in 1947. Of this unusual relationship, Shaw would write to "you really must write of that ménage". While this did not come to pass, St. John herself did much to solidify Terry's literary reputation editing the Terry-Shaw correspondence and annotating the 1931 reprint of Terry's The Story of My Life. The following biography is St. John's introduction to Edy, Recollections of Edith Craig, and a collection of essays published to honour Craig two years following her death.

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#: 2785</td>
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<tr><td>Condition:Overall good condition</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:1911</td></tr>
<tr><td>Country:UK</td></tr>
<tr><td>Maker: Emmelina Deane</td></tr>
<tr><td>Height:23</td></tr>

<tr><td>Width:19</td></tr>

<tr><td>Title:Portrait of Edith Craig 1869-1947, painted by</td></tr>
<tr><td>Style:Traditional</td></tr>
<tr><td>Materials:Pastel on Paper</td></tr>
<tr><td>Type:Pastel on Paper</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location:london uk</td></tr>
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