Marion Terry

[1] Always in the shadow of her older and more famous sister Ellen, Terry nevertheless achieved considerable success in the plays of W. S. Gilbert, Oscar Wilde, Henry James and others.

[2] Terry's first professional stage appearance was in July 1873 as Ophelia in a production of Hamlet directed by Tom Taylor in Manchester.

Her first West End appearance came in October 1873 as Isabelle in a farce by John Maddison Morton, A Game of Romps at the Olympic Theatre, in the company of Henry Neville.

[2] Also during that period, she first appeared in The Danischeffs, adapted by Lord Newry (1876), Fame by C. M. Rae (1877), Charles XII by James Planché (1877 revival),[11] The Vagabond, by Gilbert (1878),[12] Two Orphans (1878),[13] The Crushed Tragedian,[8] and My Little Girl by Dion Boucicault.

She continued to tour with Irving's Lyceum company in the 1890s, as Rosamund in Alfred Lord Tennyson's Becket, as Portia in The Merchant of Venice (one of her sister's signature roles), and again as Margaret.

[2] In 1892 Terry played perhaps her most famous role, Mrs. Erlynne in Lady Windermere's Fan, by Oscar Wilde, at the St James's Theatre.

In 1895, she appeared in Alabama by Augustus Thomas, in the title role in Delia Harding by J. Comyns Carr, and as Mrs. Peverel in Guy Domville by Henry James.

She was Nina in Forgiveness by J. Comyns Carr (1901), the title role in Eleanor by Mrs. Humphry Ward (1902), Susan Throssell in Quality Street by J. M. Barrie (1902), and Audrie in Michael and His Lost Angel by Henry Arthur Jones, among many other engagements.

Her last role was the Principessa della Cercola in Our Betters at the Globe by Somerset Maugham in 1923, fifty years after her first professional appearance.