160:(16 December 1865 – 4 July 1945) was a British teacher who departed from the customary practice of "voice and diction" also called elocution. At that time "Voice and Diction" focused entirely on the mouth and nasal cavity to produce speech sounds. Fogerty's technique ended up focusing on the entire body and voice to produce speech. At first, she used just the lungs to resonate the sound, but soon included the whole body, because she discovered that posture and movement also affected speech. It ultimately became known as the "Body and Voice" technique. She was founder and principal of the
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Central School of Speech-Training and Dramatic Arts at the Hall. By 1908 she had worked out a three year training course from speech trainer and drama teachers. In 1923 the school was one of three educational establishments approved by the
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to grant diplomas in dramatic art. Fogerty gave university extension lectures at the Albert Hall, and for many years took evening classes for
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Many public figures and actors consulted
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Fogerty worked to secure the first recognition of drama as a diploma subject in an English university – the
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Fogie – The Life (1865–1945) of Elsie
Fogerty Pioneer of Speech Training for the Theatre and Everyday Life
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FRIBA (d. 1899) and his wife, Hannah
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The School remained at the Royal Albert Hall until 1957, when it moved to its current site in
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from its foundation until her death, and was a keen supporter for the establishment of the
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Fogerty was a pioneer in the cure of stammering and in 1912 opened a speech clinic at
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and many alumni went on to become teachers in speech and the management of theatres.
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Fogerty never married but devoted her entire life to her work. In 1944 her flat in
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Whilst at the Royal Albert Hall Elsie
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Shakespeare’s
Twelfth Night, Elsie Fogerty (1911 Swann Sonnenschein & Co)
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Many of
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The
Antigone of Sophocles, Elsie Fogerty (1908 Swann Sonnenschein & Co)
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Euripide’s
Alkestis, Elsie Fogerty (1924 Swann Sonnenschein & Co)
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Tennyson’s Princess, Elsie Fogerty (1901 Swann Sonnenschein & Co)
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An only child, she was privately educated and in 1883 trained at the
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People associated with the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
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in London. Fogerty went on to teach English and Elocution at the
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in the 1890s. Following their success, in 1906 she founded the
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Fogerty began teaching Saturday speech classes at the
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