An evening with Art Historian, Veronica Franklin Gould who will be discussing the life of one of England’s greatest stage actresses.

 Veronica will talk about the life and work of the distinguished Victorian stage actress Ellen Terry, muse to artist G F Watts, professional partner to Henry Irving and member of a theatrical dynasty. Veronica Franklin Gould, art historian, editor, curator, fundraiser and biographer of the Victorian artist George Frederic Watts O.M. R.A. (1817-1904), writes and lectures on the life and work of G. F. Watts, of the craftswoman Mary Seton Watts (1849-1938), the pioneer photographer Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-79) and the actress Ellen Terry (1847-1928).

After an early career in publishing, Veronica trained at Christie's and published guidebooks to the Surrey village of Compton and Watts Chapel: An Arts & Crafts Memorial. Her biography G. F. Watts: The Last Great Victorian, published by Yale University Press in 2004, is regarded as the definitive work on Watts. Her ‘truly excellent’ centenary exhibition Tennyson at Farringford (2009) established museum display conditions in the Victorian poet laureate’s library on the Isle of Wight.