page_title: Mabel Hackney
section_title: The Lyceum and marriage
hierarchical_section_title: Mabel Hackney / The Lyceum and marriage
caption_attribution_description: English: The British actors Laurence Irving and Mabel Hackney in 'The Affinity/The Incubus c1910
context_page_description: Mabel Lucy Hackney was a British actress and the wife of the dramatist and actor Laurence Irving and daughter-in-law of the actor Henry Irving in whose company she acted before she joined that of her husband. She died along with her husband in the RMS Empress of Ireland disaster in 1914.
context_section_description: Joining the Company of Henry Irving at the Lyceum Theatre in London she appeared in The Lyons Mail; was Virgilia in Coriolanus (1901); Nora Brewster in Arthur Conan Doyle's A Story of Waterloo (1901); Annette in The Bells (1901); and Nerissa in The Merchant of Venice (1901). In the Company she met her future husband, Laurence Irving. She was in Irving's The London Lyceum Company during its 1901–02 tour of North America, among other roles playing Sarah Oldfield in the curtain-raiser Nance Oldfield opposite Ellen Terry on a bill which featured Irving as Mathias in The Bells. The Company also performed The Merchant of Venice during the tour. She played Pia dei Tolomei opposite Henry Irving in the title role in Dante at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (1903). Mabel Hackney married Laurence Irving in 1903: their children were Laurence Irving Brodribb (1903–1988) and Dorothy Elizabeth Irving Brodribb (1906–2003).
  She was Lucy Sacheverell in a tour of her husband's play Richard Lovelace (1903) in a cast that included Irving and Gerald Lawrence. She was Alice Maitland opposite Harley Granville Barker in The Voysey Inheritance (1905) and in Pan and the Young Shepherd (1906), both at the Royal Court Theatre. She created the role of Phyllis in Pinero's The Thunderbolt at the St James's Theatre (1908) and in the same year toured with her husband in Peg Woffington. During 1909–10 the couple were in New York appearing in The Incubus and The Three Daughters of M. Dupont.
caption: Laurence Irving and Hackney in The Incubus c1910
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