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==Career==
[[File:Ethel Barrymore, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing front.jpg|thumb|right|Barrymore in 1901 in one of the costumes from ''Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines]]
In the summer of 1893, Barrymore was in the company of her mother Georgie, who had been ailing from [[tuberculosis]] and took a curative [[sabbatical]] to [[Santa Barbara, California]], not far from where [[family friend]] [[Helena Modjeska]] had a retreat. Georgie did not recover and died in July 1893
In 1897 Ethel went with [[William Gillette]] to London to play Miss Kittridge in Gillette's ''Secret Service''. She was about to return to the States with Gillette's troupe when [[Henry Irving]] and [[Ellen Terry]] offered her the role of Annette in ''The Bells''. A full London tour was on and, before it was over, Ethel created, on [[New Year's Day]] 1898, Euphrosine in ''Peter the Great'' at the [[Lyceum Theatre, London|Lyceum]], the play having been written by Irving's son, Laurence. Men everywhere were smitten with Ethel, most notably [[Winston Churchill]], who asked her to marry him. Not wishing to be a politician's wife, she refused. Winston, years later, married [[Clementine Hozier]], who looked very much like Ethel. Winston and Ethel remained friends until the end of her life.
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