Ashwell, Lena

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Ashwell, Lena [ Lena Pocock] (1872–1957), English actress-manager who made her first appearance in 1891, and scored a great success in 1900 in Henry Arthur Jones's Mrs Dane's Defence, in which she was also seen in the USA. On her return to England she took over the Kingsway Theatre, remaining in management until 1915, when she left to organize entertainment for the troops in France and Germany, for which she was awarded the OBE. She was active in the foundation of the British Drama League (see AMATEUR THEATRE) and in 1925 took over the Bijou Theatre, in Bayswater, renamed it the Century, and produced there several new plays, including her own adaptations of Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment and Stevenson's Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (both 1927).

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