Sarah Siddons

She attempted match-making for Harriet. With Frances Burney (whom she first saw again in 1790) she rebuilt civil but never close relations. She became, however, an intimate friend of the actress Sarah Siddons .

Her poetic oeuvre consists of a core of longish serious poems, a verse drama, other theatre pieces and a large penumbra of occasional poems and jeux d'esprit. She worked in the ode, essay, epistle, pastoral...

The poem picked out by the Critical Review as the principal one, occupying fourteen pages, is entitled Lines found on the Stairs of the Tour de la Chapelle of the Bastile. These lines, powerful...

AO 's friendship with Anne and Annabella Plumptre (daughters of Robert Plumptre , Prebend of Norwich, both of whom grew up to be writers) dated from their shared childhood. Her friendship with the...

In London she met many artists, writers, and politically active reformists: as well as Godwin , she met Elizabeth Inchbald , Mary Wollstonecraft (who impressed her deeply, and trusted her enough to confide her plans...

Here she began to gather the circle of friends which by the end of her long life had touched every cranny of English society. She had already met Edmund Burke in Bristol the previous September...

The Critical was brief and unfriendly: it said that the play, though not the best, is, perhaps, the bloodiest production of the modern drama . . . . The author is more obliged to a...

The metatheatrical first act takes place during rehearsals for William ShakespeareRomeo and Juliet (in which Kemble made her triumphant stage debut on 5 October 1829); in it Kemble's aunt Sarah Siddons instructs her niece on playing...

In 1795 SL subscribed, as Miss Lee of Belvedere and clearly for the use of the school, to James Marshall's Library of Bath, a circulating library with a comparatively small proportion of fiction in its...

Those present included Hester Lynch Piozzi , Hannah More and her sisters, Sarah Siddons , and others. The great point at issue was the gender of the anonymous author.

One of the last postponements, in spring 1796, resulted from the illness of Sarah Siddons, who was to star in it along with her brothers. It had a prologue and epilogue by Harriet Lee

Criticism has an even freer rein in the later than in the earlier diaries. In 1790 AML found Mariana Starke 's unpublished The British Orphans indelicate and Starke 's The Widow of Malabar showy but...

There is again evidence that financial pressures played a part in her family's eagerness to see her in print. The volume was published under the name Letitia Elizabeth Landon and bore a dedication by...

Of her paternal aunts, Sarah Siddons was immeasurably the most famous actress of her generation in Britain and Elizabeth Whitelock achieved some theatrical success in the USA, while Ann Hatton , the youngest and the...

One of FK 's paternal aunts, Sarah Siddons , became a celebrity as the leading tragic actress of her generation.