Gwen Lally
An archive of papers and photographs relating to her and her partner Amabel Gibson:
i) Playscripts and other literary works, including an untitled manuscript playscript in a notebook, together with other notes including on feminism; two typescripts of the same play (with the title “Dear Edward” and “Edward Roupell”); four other scripts or acting parts, most in blue wrappers with the return address of Amabel Gibson; typescript notes relating to the Warwick Castle Pageant (1930); manuscript poem (“Flaming Youth”), 2 pages; a group of four typescript poems by Vita Sackville-West and J.E. Flecker probably prepared for a public reading
ii) Photograph album of Gwen Lally and Amabel Gibson, c.110 amateur photographs of the couple at home in Kent and on holiday, in costume, posing with cats and other animals, as well as interior and architectural details, various sizes, in a card album (195 x 290mm)
iii) c.95 loose photographs including of Gwen Lally and Amabel Gibson, a number showing them in various costumes, some professional portraits (several signed “Belfie”), and many of historical pageants (including Malvern and Runnymede), other actors including Ellen Terry (two signed), Diana Wynward (large signed photo), George Bernard Shaw, Scott Sunderland (signed), some with captions on the reverse, various sizes
iv) Vita Sackville-West four autograph letters signed (“Vita”), to Gwen Lally, friendly letters (“Your car nestles into the garage like a blue-tit. It is warm and safe, and is no more in the way than a kitten in a cathedral”), 1948-50, with an autograph postcard and a large signed photograph (“Chloe and Lally from Vita”) (320x 205mm)
v) Other correspondence, c.30 items, chiefly relating to Lally’s investiture as OBE (1954) with letters of congratulation by Sybil Thorndike and others, some also relating to Lally’s play Jezebel being licenced by the Lord Chamberlain (1912)
vi) Gwen Lally. Jezebel. London, 1918. First edition, 8vo, original wrappers, signed by the author; with a theatre programme (‘The Insect Play’) and a bundle of postcards
vii) Four Lally family letters, 19th century, manuscript notebook entitled “Genealogy of the House of Lally”
Gwen Lally (1882-1963) was a playwright, poet, and actor, but found greatest success as a pageant master, organising large-scale outdoor events drawing on the history of locations such as Warwick Castle, Runnymede, and Battle Abbey, from the 1930s-50s. Throughout her life she maintained a carefully constructed image: always dressed in male costume, and often in strikingly archaic dress. The photos included here show her as Edward III, Henry V, a French aristocrat, and in other roles - but her costume when at the wheel of her car, for example, is almost as striking. From the mid-1920s onwards she lived in London and Kent with the actor Amabel (Mabel) Gibson (1887-1979).
Gwen Lally
An archive of papers and photographs relating to her and her partner Amabel Gibson:
i) Playscripts and other literary works, including an untitled manuscript playscript in a notebook, together with other notes including on feminism; two typescripts of the same play (with the title “Dear Edward” and “Edward Roupell”); four other scripts or acting parts, most in blue wrappers with the return address of Amabel Gibson; typescript notes relating to the Warwick Castle Pageant (1930); manuscript poem (“Flaming Youth”), 2 pages; a group of four typescript poems by Vita Sackville-West and J.E. Flecker probably prepared for a public reading
ii) Photograph album of Gwen Lally and Amabel Gibson, c.110 amateur photographs of the couple at home in Kent and on holiday, in costume, posing with cats and other animals, as well as interior and architectural details, various sizes, in a card album (195 x 290mm)
iii) c.95 loose photographs including of Gwen Lally and Amabel Gibson, a number showing them in various costumes, some professional portraits (several signed “Belfie”), and many of historical pageants (including Malvern and Runnymede), other actors including Ellen Terry (two signed), Diana Wynward (large signed photo), George Bernard Shaw, Scott Sunderland (signed), some with captions on the reverse, various sizes
iv) Vita Sackville-West four autograph letters signed (“Vita”), to Gwen Lally, friendly letters (“Your car nestles into the garage like a blue-tit. It is warm and safe, and is no more in the way than a kitten in a cathedral”), 1948-50, with an autograph postcard and a large signed photograph (“Chloe and Lally from Vita”) (320x 205mm)
v) Other correspondence, c.30 items, chiefly relating to Lally’s investiture as OBE (1954) with letters of congratulation by Sybil Thorndike and others, some also relating to Lally’s play Jezebel being licenced by the Lord Chamberlain (1912)
vi) Gwen Lally. Jezebel. London, 1918. First edition, 8vo, original wrappers, signed by the author; with a theatre programme (‘The Insect Play’) and a bundle of postcards
vii) Four Lally family letters, 19th century, manuscript notebook entitled “Genealogy of the House of Lally”
Gwen Lally (1882-1963) was a playwright, poet, and actor, but found greatest success as a pageant master, organising large-scale outdoor events drawing on the history of locations such as Warwick Castle, Runnymede, and Battle Abbey, from the 1930s-50s. Throughout her life she maintained a carefully constructed image: always dressed in male costume, and often in strikingly archaic dress. The photos included here show her as Edward III, Henry V, a French aristocrat, and in other roles - but her costume when at the wheel of her car, for example, is almost as striking. From the mid-1920s onwards she lived in London and Kent with the actor Amabel (Mabel) Gibson (1887-1979).
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