Sarah Siddons

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...

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...

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...

Sarah Siddons played in Hamlet at the Theatre Royal in Bath; in the audience, probably, was the teenage Ann Ward (later AR ).

After MR became known as the prince's mistress, the double standard in public morality made it virtually impossible for respectable women to treat her as a friend. Her admiration for Sarah Siddons was not reciprocated...

Another of her plays, Mrs. Siddons, 1931, in four acts, was a first step towards her biography of the famous actress.

NRS opens her story with Jane Fairfax as a little orphan growing up in the family of Colonel and Mrs Campbell, whose naughty daughter Euphrasia is a likable foil to her throughout. She ends it...

NRS produced another biography, The Private Life of Mrs. Siddons : A Psychological Investigation, which followed two years after her play on the same subject.

AS was several times painted by George Romney . One portrait, in fashionable garb, belonged to her father. Another was treasured by William Hayley , then vanished from sight. A century later it was found...

It was small but handsome. Thomas Stothard did two of the illustrations. His design for sonnet 12 (Written on the Sea Shore.—October 1784—the month in which she crossed the Channel with her children...

In EdinburghMS also attended theatrical productions featuring such actors as Sarah Siddons and her brothers Charles and John Kemble . Mary greatly enjoyed the social life of the Scottish capital, attended many balls, and...

The Somervilles' circle was not purely a scientific one, and MS became a friend of the actress Lady Becher and with the Baillie family. She accompanied Joanna Baillie to the opening of the latter's play...

The First Actress draws an implicit parallel between the admission of women to the vote and their admission to stage acting at the Restoration. Peggy Hughes , presented as first woman in the London professional...

There she began to frequent Elizabeth Montagu 's bluestocking circle. She was introduced in cultural circles by Andrew Kippis , minister of the church her family attended, and soon knew William Hayley , Sarah Siddons