Charles Kemble

She began writing tragedies (after seeing Macready on stage) before her father's financial losses compelled her to take up less prestigious but potentially better-paying genres as well. She was encouraged by Thomas Noon Talfourd ...

MRM began her verse tragedy Foscari in 1821, after the rejection of Fiesco, and was horrified to discover that Byron had just published The Two Foscari. In late 1822...

MRM wrote to Macready in April 1823 about this play, or the idea for it; she was afraid he did not like it. She found the subject in Gibbon 's Decline and Fall of the...

From August 1823 MRM was planning a grand historical tragedy on the greatest subject in English story—Charles and Cromwell. She noted Cromwell 's domestic virtues and thought of him as a man acting...

Mitford was planning this tragedy by March 1827, though she said she had not yet drafted as much as ten lines.Charles Kemble expressed interest in it in 1828, but she turned him...

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...