Ellen Terry and James Carew 1909

Ellen Terry and her husband James Carew at home in Kent. Dame Alice Ellen Terry (1847 - 1928), known professionally as Ellen Terry, was an English actress who became the leading Shakespearean actress in Britain. The last of her three husbands, Terry and James Carew were married on a US tour in 1907. He had appeared with her years earlier at the Court Theatre and was 30 years her junior. Shown posing in the stone doorway, the couple spend much of their leisure time in the charming gardens attached to the house'. Unfortunately, they were separated after two years but never divorced. Ellen Terry had purchased this house, Smallhythe Place, at the turn of the 20th-century and lived there until her death

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