Annie Horniman Annie Horniman Annie Elizabeth Fredericka Horniman CH (3 October 1860 – 6 August 1937) was an English theatre patron and manager. She established the Abbey Theatre in Dublin and founded the first regional repertory theatre company in Britain at the Gaiety Theatre in Manchester. She encouraged the work of new writers and playwrights, including W. B. Yeats, George Bernard Shaw and members of what became known as the Manchester School of dramatists. Annie Horniman was born at Surrey Mount, Forest Hill, London, in 1860, the elder child of Frederick John Horniman and his first wife Rebekah née Elmslie. Her father
Poems of Today Henry Treece - R. C. Trevelyan - W. J. Turner - John Waller - Rex Warner - Vernon Watkins - Dorothy Wellesley - Laurence Whistler - W. B. Yeats - Andrew Young Poems of Today Poems of Today was a series of anthologies of poetry, almost all Anglo-Irish, produced by the English Association. A. E. - Lascelles Abercrombie - H. C. Beeching - Hilaire Belloc - Laurence Binyon - W. S. Blunt - Robert Bridges - Rupert Brooke - William Canton - P. R. Chalmers - G. K. Chesterton - Mary E. Coleridge - Padraic Colum - Frances Cornford -