Winifred Emery (1 August 1861 – 15 July 1924), born Maud Isabel Emery, was an English actress and
actor-manager
An actor-manager is a leading actor who sets up their own permanent theatrical company and manages the business, sometimes taking over a theatre to perform select plays in which they usually star. It is a method of theatrical production used co ...
of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She was the wife of the actor
Cyril Maude
Cyril Francis Maude (24 April 1862 — 20 February 1951) was an English actor-manager.
Biography
Maude was born in London and educated at Wixenford and Charterhouse School. In 1881, he was sent to Adelaide, South Australia, on the clipper ship ...
.
Born into a family of actors, Emery began acting as a child. Her career grew through the 1880s and 1890s as she played leading roles in the
West End of London. After a period away from the stage, she returned with leading roles in the company of
Herbert Beerbohm Tree
Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree (17 December 1852 – 2 July 1917) was an English actor and theatre manager.
Tree began performing in the 1870s. By 1887, he was managing the Haymarket Theatre in the West End, winning praise for adventurous progra ...
at
His Majesty's Theatre. She continued to act steadily in her own touring theatre company with her husband and in London theatres until 1922.
Early life and career
Emery was born in
Manchester
Manchester () is a city in Greater Manchester, England. It had a population of 552,000 in 2021. It is bordered by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and the neighbouring city of Salford to the west. The t ...
, Lancashire, the daughter of
Samuel Anderson Emery
Samuel "Sam" Anderson Emery (1814–1881) was an English stage actor, the father of the actress Winifred Emery and grandfather of the actress Margery Maude and the judge John Cyril Maude.
Early life
The son of John Emery, he was born in Hyde ...
and granddaughter of John Emery, both well-known actors in their day. Her first stage appearance was in 1870, aged 8, in
J. B. Buckstone
John Baldwin Buckstone (14 September 1802 – 31 October 1879) was an English actor, playwright and comedian who wrote 150 plays, the first of which was produced in 1826.
He starred as a comic actor during much of his career for various periods ...
's ''The Green Bushes'' at the Alexandra Theatre in
Liverpool
Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. With a population of in 2019, it is the 10th largest English district by population and its metropolitan area is the fifth largest in the United Kingdom, with a popul ...
. Her first London appearance was on 23 December 1874 when she played Happy New Year in the
pantomime
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''
Beauty and the Beast
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'' at the
Princess's Theatre
The Princess's Theatre or Princess Theatre was a theatre in Oxford Street
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. In 1879 she joined
Marie Litton's company before appearing with
Wilson Barrett
Wilson Barrett (born William Henry Barrett; 18 February 1846 – 22 July 1904) was an English manager, actor, and playwright. With his company, Barrett is credited with attracting the largest crowds of English theatregoers ever because of his suc ...
at the
Grand Theatre in
Leeds
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. She moved with Barrett to the
Court Theatre in London in October 1879.
[C. M. P. Taylor]
Emery, Winifred (1861–1924)
''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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'', Oxford University Press, 2004; online ed., January 2008, accessed 7 June 2011 There she was first noticed by the critics when she appeared in the one-act play ''A Clerical Error''.
Emery appeared in ''A Bridal Tour'' at the
Haymarket Theatre
The Theatre Royal Haymarket (also known as Haymarket Theatre or the Little Theatre) is a West End theatre on Haymarket in the City of Westminster which dates back to 1720, making it the third-oldest London playhouse still in use. Samuel Foote ...
in August 1880, and performed at the
St James's Theatre
The St James's Theatre was in King Street, St James's, London. It opened in 1835 and was demolished in 1957. The theatre was conceived by and built for a popular singer, John Braham; it lost money and after three seasons he retired. A succ ...
with Sir
John Hare,
William Hunter Kendal
William Hunter Kendal (16 December 1843 – 7 November 1917) was an English actor and theatre manager. He and his wife Madge starred at the Haymarket in Shakespearian revivals and the old English comedies beginning in the 1860s. In the 1870s, ...
and
Madge Kendal
Dame Madge Kendal, (born Margaret Shafto Robertson; 15 March 1848 – 14 September 1935) was an English actress of the Victorian and Edwardian eras, best known for her roles in Shakespeare and English comedies. Together with her husband, W. ...
. In July 1881 she joined the company of
Henry Irving
Sir Henry Irving (6 February 1838 – 13 October 1905), christened John Henry Brodribb, sometimes known as J. H. Irving, was an English stage actor in the Victorian era, known as an actor-manager because he took complete responsibility ( ...
at the
Lyceum Theatre, and there she appeared in ''
The Bells'' and ''
The Merchant of Venice
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Although classified as ...
''. She later played at
Toole's Theatre
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and at the
Vaudeville Theatre
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with
Thomas Thorne
Thomas Thorne (1841–1918) was an English actor and theatre manager. Thomas Thorne was one of the founding managers of London's Vaudeville Theatre, along with David James and Henry James Montague, and performed leading roles in many of the p ...
in ''
The Rivals
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''. In 1884 she became the understudy for
Ellen Terry
Dame Alice Ellen Terry, (27 February 184721 July 1928), was a leading English actress of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Born into a family of actors, Terry began performing as a child, acting in Shakespeare plays in London, and tour ...
at the Lyceum Theatre and toured the United States with Henry Irving, playing in ''
Twelfth Night
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'', ''
Much Ado about Nothing
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'' and ''The Merchant of Venice''. Also for Irving, in October 1885 Emery played the title role in ''
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'' by
W. G. Wills
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Early life and career
Wills was born at Blackwell lodge in the neighbourhood of Kilmurry, County Kilkenny, Ire ...
, and toured the United States again in 1887–8.
[
Emery married the actor ]Cyril Maude
Cyril Francis Maude (24 April 1862 — 20 February 1951) was an English actor-manager.
Biography
Maude was born in London and educated at Wixenford and Charterhouse School. In 1881, he was sent to Adelaide, South Australia, on the clipper ship ...
on 28 April 1888 at Kensington
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The district's commercial heart is Kensington High Street, running on an east–west axis. The north-east is taken up b ...
Register Office, and they had another marriage ceremony at the Savoy Chapel
The King's Chapel of St John the Baptist in the Precinct of the Savoy, also known as the King's Chapel of the Savoy, is a church in the City of Westminster, London. Facing it are 111 Strand, the Savoy Hotel, the Institution of Engineering and Te ...
on 2 June 1888. She next appeared at the Vaudeville Theatre and, for Augustus Harris
Sir Augustus Henry Glossop Harris (18 March 1852 – 22 June 1896) was a British actor, impresario, and dramatist, a dominant figure in the West End theatre of the 1880s and 1890s.
Born into a theatrical family, Harris briefly pursued a comme ...
, at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
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. Returning to the Vaudeville Theatre in February 1890, she played the title role in ''Clarissa
''Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady: Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life. And Particularly Shewing, the Distresses that May Attend the Misconduct Both of Parents and Children, In Relation to Marriage'' is an epist ...
'', adapted by Robert Williams Buchanan
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Early life and education
He was the son of Robert Buchanan (1813–1866), Owenite lecturer and journalist, and was born at Caverswall, S ...
from the novel by Samuel Richardson
Samuel Richardson (baptised 19 August 1689 – 4 July 1761) was an English writer and printer known for three epistolary novels: ''Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded'' (1740), '' Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady'' (1748) and ''The History of ...
. In the same year, and at the same theatre, she played leading roles in ''The School for Scandal
''The School for Scandal'' is a comedy of manners written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. It was first performed in London at Drury Lane Theatre on 8 May 1777.
Plot
Act I
Scene I: Lady Sneerwell, a wealthy young widow, and her hireling Sna ...
'' and ''She Stoops to Conquer
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'', among others.[ She starred in ''Judah'' by ]Henry Arthur Jones
Henry Arthur Jones (20 September 1851 – 7 January 1929) was an English dramatist, who was first noted for his melodrama '' The Silver King'' (1882), and went on to write prolifically, often appearing to mirror Ibsen from the opposite (conserva ...
at the Shaftesbury Theatre
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History
The theatre was d ...
in September 1890 before appearing at the Olympic Theatre with Wilson Barrett
Wilson Barrett (born William Henry Barrett; 18 February 1846 – 22 July 1904) was an English manager, actor, and playwright. With his company, Barrett is credited with attracting the largest crowds of English theatregoers ever because of his suc ...
in December 1890.
May 1891 saw Emery back at the Shaftesbury Theatre, and in February 1892 she took the title role in the original production of Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is ...
's ''Lady Windermere's Fan
''Lady Windermere's Fan, A Play About a Good Woman'' is a four-act comedy by Oscar Wilde, first performed on Saturday, 20 February 1892, at the St James's Theatre in London.
The story concerns Lady Windermere, who suspects that her husband i ...
'' at the St James's Theatre
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. Between 1893 and 1895 Emery played the lead female roles for J. Comyns Carr
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Beginning his career as an art critic, Car ...
at the Comedy Theatre
The Harold Pinter Theatre, known as the Comedy Theatre until 2011, , where she appeared in Grundy's ''The New Woman'' and ''Sowing the Wind'' and Pinero's ''The Benefit of the Doubt''. Such was her fame by this time that her portrait was drawn by Aubrey Beardsley
Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (21 August 187216 March 1898) was an English illustrator and author. His black ink drawings were influenced by Woodblock printing in Japan, Japanese woodcuts, and depicted the grotesque, the decadent, and the erotic. He ...
, appearing in the January 1895 edition of ''The Yellow Book
''The Yellow Book'' was a British quarterly literary periodical that was published in London from 1894 to 1897. It was published at The Bodley Head Publishing House by Elkin Mathews and John Lane, and later by John Lane alone, and edited by th ...
''. In February 1896 she appeared at the Lyceum Theatre under the management of Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson
Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson (16 January 1853 – 6 November 1937''Sir Johnston Forbes Robertson, Beauty And Grace in Acting'', Obituaries, ''The Times'', 8 November 1937.) was an English actor and theatre manager and husband of actress Gertru ...
.[
]
Later years
In 1896 her husband became manager and leading man at the Haymarket Theatre
The Theatre Royal Haymarket (also known as Haymarket Theatre or the Little Theatre) is a West End theatre on Haymarket in the City of Westminster which dates back to 1720, making it the third-oldest London playhouse still in use. Samuel Foote ...
, and Emery went with him, becoming his leading lady. However, owing to a period of illness and the birth of her son, her appearances there between 1898 and 1905 were sporadic, and included ''She Stoops to Conquer
''She Stoops to Conquer'' is a comedy by Oliver Goldsmith, first performed in London in 1773. The play is a favourite for study by English literature and theatre classes in the English-speaking world. It is one of the few plays from the 18th ...
'', in 1900, and ''The Second in Command'', by Robert Marshall, in 1901. She made her theatrical 'comeback' in February 1905, when she played Beatrice in ''Much Ado about Nothing
''Much Ado About Nothing'' is a comedy by William Shakespeare thought to have been written in 1598 and 1599.See textual notes to ''Much Ado About Nothing'' in ''The Norton Shakespeare'' ( W. W. Norton & Company, 1997 ) p. 1387 The play ...
'' opposite Herbert Beerbohm Tree
Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree (17 December 1852 – 2 July 1917) was an English actor and theatre manager.
Tree began performing in the 1870s. By 1887, he was managing the Haymarket Theatre in the West End, winning praise for adventurous progra ...
at His Majesty's Theatre. In January 1906 she appeared at the Waldorf Theatre as Mrs Pellender in ''The Superior Miss Pellender''. Emery formed her own theatrical company and with it she and her husband toured provincial theatres, the two of them starring in ''Olivia and Her Son'' by Horace Annesley Vachell. This play transferred to the Playhouse Theatre
The Playhouse Theatre is a West End theatre in the City of Westminster, located in Northumberland Avenue, near Trafalgar Square, central London. The Theatre was built by F. H. Fowler and Hill with a seating capacity of 1,200. It was rebuilt i ...
, then under Cyril Maude's management, in March 1907.[
From 1907 to 1922 Emery played leading roles in numerous productions at West End theatres, including the Playhouse Theatre with her husband; His Majesty's Theatre in '']The Merry Wives of Windsor
''The Merry Wives of Windsor'' or ''Sir John Falstaff and the Merry Wives of Windsor'' is a comedy by William Shakespeare first published in 1602, though believed to have been written in or before 1597. The Windsor of the play's title is a ref ...
''; Drury Lane in ''The Bunking of Betty''; the St James's Theatre in T. W. Robertson's ''Caste
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''; the Lyric Theatre in ''Sir Walter Ralegh''; the Vaudeville Theatre
The Vaudeville Theatre is a West End theatre on the Strand in the City of Westminster. As the name suggests, the theatre held mostly vaudeville shows and musical revues in its early days. It opened in 1870 and was rebuilt twice, although each ...
in Pinero's ''The Schoolmistress''; the Apollo Theatre
The Apollo Theatre is a Grade II listed West End theatre, on Shaftesbury Avenue in the City of Westminster, in central London. in ''Never Say Die'' by W. H. Post, starring Charles Hawtrey (1913); the Gaiety Theatre in Maeterlinck's ''The Betrothal'', and at the Duke of York's Theatre
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in Pinero's ''The Enchanted Cottage'' (1922). At the Royal Command Performance
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Although English monarchs have long sponsored their own theatrical companies and commis ...
in May 1911 at Drury Lane before Wilhelm II
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, Emery appeared in an excerpt from Bulwer-Lytton's ''Money''; and at the Coronation Gala Performance for George V
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, held at His Majesty's Theatre on 27 June 1911, she played Elizabeth I
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El ...
in Sheridan's ''The Critic
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'', directed by Sir Squire Bancroft
Sir Squire Bancroft (14 May 1841 – 19 April 1926), born Squire White Butterfield, was an English actor-manager. He changed his name to Squire Bancroft Bancroft by deed poll just before his marriage. He and his wife Effie Bancroft are consid ...
.[ Her last performance was at His Majesty's Theatre on 26 February 1923 in a charity production of ''The Ballad Monger''.
Emery died of stomach cancer at her home in ]Bexhill-on-Sea
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in Sussex, aged 62, and was buried at St Mark's Church in Bexhill.
Family life
Her children with Maude included Margery Maude
Margery Kathleen Maude (April 29, 1889 – August 7, 1979) was an English actress of stage, screen and television.
Early life
Margery Maude was born in Wimbledon, London, the elder daughter of the actors Cyril and Winifred (née Emery) Maude. ...
, who became an actress; Pamela Cynthia Maude (1893–1975); and John Cyril Maude, who became a barrister, judge and Member of Parliament. Pamela Maude married Major William La Touche Congreve
William La Touche Congreve, (12 March 1891 – 20 July 1916) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. ...
VC, DSO, MC on 1 June 1916. He was killed in action on 20 July 1916 during World War I
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, for which he was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross
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. On 22 December 1919 she married Captain William Fraser, DSO, MC (1890–1964), who eventually rose to the rank of Brigadier
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.
Emery brought up her niece, Winifred Isabel Emery (1890–1972),[Gascoyne, David]
''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', accessed 2 June 2011[ Dark, Sidney and Rowland Grey. ''W. S. Gilbert: His Life and Letters'', Methuen & Co Ltd, London (1923), pp. 222–223] after the girl was abandoned by Emery's brother in 1895. This niece, together with her pupil Ruby Preece, was present when dramatist W. S. Gilbert
Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (18 November 1836 – 29 May 1911) was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for his collaboration with composer Arthur Sullivan, which produced fourteen comic operas. The most f ...
died in his lake at Grim's Dyke
Grim's Dyke (sometimes called Graeme's Dyke until late 1891)How, Harry ''The Strand Magazine'', Vol. 2, October 1891, pp. 330–41, reprinted at ''The Gilbert and Sullivan Archive'', 20 November 2011 is a house and estate in Harrow Weald, in nort ...
in May 1911.[Goodman, Andrew. ''Grim's Dyke: A Short History of the House and Its Owners'', Glittering Prizes , pp. 17–18] Winifred Isabel Emery was the mother of poet David Gascoyne
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Early life and surrealis ...
.[
]
References
External links
Winifred Emery Emery
on New York Public Library
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's Digital Gallery
Photographs of Emery
on the National Portrait Gallery website
Painting
by Walter Sickert
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of Emery, Cyril Maude
Cyril Francis Maude (24 April 1862 — 20 February 1951) was an English actor-manager.
Biography
Maude was born in London and educated at Wixenford and Charterhouse School. In 1881, he was sent to Adelaide, South Australia, on the clipper ship ...
and Brandon Thomas Brandon Thomas may refer to:
*Brandon Thomas (playwright) (1848–1914), English actor and playwright who wrote the hit farce, ''Charley's Aunt''
*Brandon Thomas (musician) (born 1980), American rock band singer
*Brandon Thomas (American football), ...
in ''Sowing the Wind'' by Sydney Grundy
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– Victoria and Albert Museum
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website
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English stage actresses
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