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Ellen Terry as Nance Oldfield
Ellen Terry as Kniertje in "The Good Hope"
Ellen Terry as Imogen
Henry Irving as Becket
Sir Henry Irving
Ellen Terry as Rosamund in "Becket"
Ellen Terry as Guinevere in "King Arthur"
"Olivia"
Miss Terry's Garden at Winchelsea
Ellen Terry as Hermione in "The Winter's Tale"
INTRODUCTION
"When I read the book, the biography famous,
And is this then (said I) what the author calls a man's life?
And so will some one when I am dead and gone write my life?
(As if any man really knew aught of my life!)
Why even I myself, I often think, know little or nothing of my real
life.
Only a few hints--a few diffused faint clues and indirections
I seek ... to trace out here."
WALT WHITMAN.
For years I have contemplated telling this story, and for years I have
put off telling it. While I have delayed, my memory has not improved,
and my recollections of the past are more hazy and fragmentary than when
it first occurred to me that one day I might write them down.
My bad memory would matter less if I had some skill in writing--the
practiced writer can see possibilities in the most ordinary events--or
if I had kept a systematic and conscientious record of my life.
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