Overview The listing for this club in the 1886 t0 1887 Glasgow Post Office directory gives a good summary of the group and its activities: ‘[…] This Club, which is under the direct patronage of Mr. Henry Irving, devotes its Read More …
Type of Society/Group: Dramatic group
The British Empire Shakespeare Society
Overview This society was the Glasgow branch of the larger British Empire Shakespeare Society that was founded by Greta Morritt (actress) in 1901. According to The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare, she founded the society ‘to promote Shakespeare’s works throughout the Empire Read More …
Waverley Literary & Drama Association
Overview This is little currently known about this society. The evidence that we have comes from a programme for the group’s ‘Thirty-first Dramatic Entertainment’, which was scheduled to be held on 30 April 1880. The front cover states that the Read More …