Watts nearly had a fit, but Ellen danced out of the room with all their hearts in her basket instead of her roses.
"To me that's the true story of Ellen Terry's life.

It may be true or false in reality, but I believe it to be true in fact as in symbol; it is not only an image of her life, but of her art.

No one knows how she met Irving or learned to act, though, as you know, she was one of the best actresses that ever graced the English stage.

A great personality.
Her children even have inherited some of her talent." It was only famous actresses such as Ellen Terry and Sarah Bernhardt and great ladies that Oscar ever praised.

He was a snob by nature; indeed this was the chief link between him and English society.