Charles Mathews

EKM 's widower, Charles Mathews , married his second wife, Anne Jackson , a fellow-actor. The wedding took place in York.

They were outraged, and at once sought legal advice from Edmund Burke (who had experienced image problems of a not dissimilar kind). This episode was remarkable partly because such hostility was unusual. But not...

Eliza Kirkham Strong married a young actor, Charles Mathews , at Swansea.

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. In France the travelling party...

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 Her successor Anne Mathews pronounced What Has Been to be very weak, although better than EKM 's other, even poorer, unpublished novels...

EKM 's widower, Charles , published by subscription, at Doncaster, her Poems by the late Mrs. Charles Mathews.

EKM was working on an adaptation of Adelaide of Walfingen for her husband 's benefit performance at Hull.

The full title is The West-Indian; or, Anecdotes of the Somerville Family: on Various Subjects, Designed for the Amusement and Instruction of Youth. Published by Henry Mozley (father of the writer Anne Mozley )...

This work involved her in finding—and engaging in voluminous correspondence with—contributors (who often were or became her personal friends), such as Anna Maria Hall , Felicia Hemans , Amelia Opie , Mary Russell Mitford ,...

The fairly recently married EKM and her husband visited his parents in London.

This lodging was chosen for cheapness, since Charles at this point earned only twenty-five shillings a week. Beset by poverty, EKM , so the story goes, paid some of the household bills but concealed the...