Shelfmark
Ka.4.19
Author
Title
The sweet lost years / Hebe Elsna.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Robert Hale Limited, 1955.
Physical description
192 p. ; 20 cm.
Note
Fictionalised account of the early life of Ellen Terry.
Note
Publisher's mid blue cloth case binding; gilt spine title; coloured pictorial dust-jacket.
Provenance
Small "GC" bookplate of Edward Gordon Craig.
Provenance
The word "lost" crossed out in pencil, with note in ink in Edward Gordon Craig's hand: "Surely this is a tenth rate bit of scribbling - but what kind of a person is - was - this Miss Hebe Elsna? Published 1955".
Provenance
Loosely inserted "NC" bookplate of Nelly [i.e. Ellen Gordon] Craig.
Provenance
Edward Gordon Craig collection.
Copy-specific note
Loosely inserted cuttings from periodical publications chiefly containing photographs of Ellen Terry and one captioned "Miss Neilson-Terry", several of them torn; newspaper cutting of the announcement of Ellen Terry's death; reproduction of G. F. Watts's painting 'Choosing' depicting Ellen Terry.
Copy-specific note
Loosely inserted National Trust postcard of G. F. Watts, 'Choosing'.
Subject
Terry, Ellen, 1847 - 1928 Dame Fiction.
Genre/Form
Novels.
Added entry--name
Craig, Edward Gordon, 1872 - 1966 former owner.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Robert Hale Ltd. publisher.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B50593