The somewhat hostile witness Hester Piozzi
alleged that AD
(whom she called much suspected for liking her own Sex in a criminal way) was engaged in an affair with the leading actress Elizabeth Farren
.
AD
was not only a diarist, novelist, and amateur actress: she became, from the 1780s, a successful and even famous sculptor. Andrew Elfenbein
notes the application to her of such terms as female genius and...
Occupation
Leah Sumbel
Theatre historian James Boaden
relates an anecdote about how once a female colleague known for sexual intrigues wished to share Wells's dressing-room; Wells thought Topham would not like this association, and moved out to take...
