The Story of My Life - Recollections and Reflections by Ellen Terry
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"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 |
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