TERRY, ELLEN ALICIA (1848—). A dis tinguished English actress, known in private life as Mrs. E. A. Wardell. She was horn at Coventry. Her first appearance on the stage was as the boy Manilius in Charles Kean's re vival of the Winter's Talc, at the Princess's Theatre, 1856. In March, 1863, Miss Terry made her appearance at the Haymarket in London, but with her marriage in 1864 she retired from the stage. She reappeared for a short time in 1867, and at length resumed her career in 1`+74. In 1875 she joined the Hancrofts at the Prince of Wales's Theatre, where she acted the part of Portia. Earls- in 1878 she had a great success in Wills's of Olivia at the Court Theatre. At the end of the same year she began her long association with Henry Irving at the Lyceum, as ()lobelia to his Hamlet (December 30, 11478). Of her roles in the long list of his subsequent pro ductions. only a few can be enumerated, her Portia in The Merchant of I'enice (1879), which is perhaps her most complete suceess; Ruth Meadows in Eugene Aram Camnina in Tennyson's tragedy of Time ('up (18811; Juliet (1882) ; Viola in Twelfth Night ( 1884) : Mar guerite in Faust (1885) ; Fair P.osamund in
Tennyson's Becket (1S93) ; Madame Sans-Gene in Sardou's play (1897) : and Clarisse in Robes pierre (1899). Her work has evoked a great variety of criticism. hut its womanly charm is unfailing, and her leading place among English actresses is on the whole undisputed. Her first visit to America with Irving was in 1SS3, when she won a welcome, repeated many times since. Consult: Hiatt. Ellen. Terry and Iler impersona tions: An. Appreriation, (London, 18981: Scott, Ellen Terry (New York. 1900) : id.. The Drama of Yesterday and To-Day (London. 1899) : Cook, Nights at the Play (1883) ; Winter, Nhadoms of the Stage (New York, 1892).