Patience Glossop Harris (1857 – December 1901), was a British costume designer for the theatre best known for her work with the actor Ellen Terry early in her career.
[1] She had two sisters, Ellen (Nelly) and Maria, and two brothers, Charles and Augustus, an actor and theatrical manager.
[1][2] Harris oversaw the actress Ellen Terry's costumes during the first decade of Terry's career at the Lyceum Theatre, from the late 1870s to the late 1880s[2] During this period Harris designed elaborate, heavy costumes in luxurious fabrics for Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, and Much Ado About Nothing, among other plays.
[2]: 304–307 Their disagreements reached a head in 1887 over designs for the plays Henry VIII and The Amber Heart, and Harris resigned.
[6] At the time of her death she was working under the company name Auguste et Cie.[2]: 288 Costumes bearing this label were worn by both Terry and the actor–manager Henry Irving.