Anne Jackson Mathews

Standard Name: Mathews, Anne Jackson

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Eliza Kirkham Mathews
EKM 's widower, Charles Mathews , married his second wife, Anne Jackson , a fellow-actor. The wedding took place in York.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Charles Mathews
Family and Intimate relationships Eliza Kirkham Mathews
The pair had met that summer. At four years the younger, he was just twenty-one.
Mathews, Anne Jackson. Memoirs of Charles Mathews, Comedian. R. Bentley, 1838–1839, 4 vols.
1: 198
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Charles Mathews
In the account of the marriage given by Mathews's second wife (who does not sound...
Fictionalization Eliza Kirkham Mathews
EKM 's representation by her husband's second wife as a pathetic victim, idealistic but foolish and untalented, paved the way for Virginia Woolf 's portrait. Woolf seized on details given by Anne Mathews: the best...
Friends, Associates Marguerite Gardiner Countess of Blessington
Charles Mathews , later a well-known actor, accompanied them abroad. His wife and son (not his first wife, the writer Eliza Kirkham Mathews ) were also friends of Lady Blessington.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
In France the travelling party...
Friends, Associates Eliza Kirkham Mathews
Again according to Anne Jackson , the next Mrs Mathews, Eliza conceived a violent affection
Mathews, Anne Jackson. Memoirs of Charles Mathews, Comedian. R. Bentley, 1838–1839, 4 vols.
1: 332
for her, and made her husband and friend promise to marry after her death, bequeathing Charles to Anne...
Literary responses Eliza Kirkham Mathews
EKM 's husband and brother-in-law certainly had no high opinion of her writing. Her successor Anne Mathews pronounced What Has Been to be very weak, although better than EKM 's other, even poorer, unpublished novels...
Material Conditions of Writing Eliza Kirkham Mathews
On this date EKM 's husband indicated that the book was still unprinted. Publisher John Litchfield mentioned it on 15 January 1801 as EKM 's new novel, implying that there had been others. According to...
Reception Catherine Gore
Quid Pro Quo proved as controversial in production as in competition. Madame Vestris , Charles Mathews , and Anne Jackson Mathews refused to play the parts assigned them and substitutes had to be found.
Gore, Catherine. “Introduction”. Gore on Stage: The Plays of Catherine Gore, edited by John Franceschina, Garland, 1999, pp. 1-34.
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Mathews, Anne Jackson. Memoirs of Charles Mathews, Comedian. R. Bentley, 1839, 4 vols.