Sarah Siddons

The suicide attempt provided an occasion for anonymous friends to solicit the public on her behalf for money, also in terms calculated to annoy her relations. After this Sarah Siddons and John Philip Kemble reputedly...

Still, even during her husband's lifetime AH was still dependent on her family. Sarah Siddons paid her an annuity of twenty or thirty pounds (continued under her will after she died), and brother John Philip Kemble

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 In 1790 AML found Mariana Starke 's unpublished The British Orphans indelicate and Starke 's The Widow of Malabar showy but...

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...

Her exemplars represent the arts, science, politics, religion, and service to humanity. Two of the nine are female— Sarah Siddons and Florence Nightingale .

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

Some years before her death CB wrote her tragedy Belisarius on a story popularised by Marmontel in his Bélisaire, 1767 (which had first reached English in the same year as its French publication). Charles Kemble

AH sent off family reminiscences designed for insertion in Thomas Campbell 's life of her sister Sarah Siddons (a work which was published in 1834).

AH was apparently trying to raise money to print a work in verse called The Raconteur (which remained unpublished), and also to place her Sarah Siddons reminiscences.

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...

FB was probably working on two comedies, The Woman-Hater and A Busy Day, and planning her casts to include Sarah Siddons and John Philip Kemble .

She was said to have begun it on impulse when her husband laughed at her claim that she could produce something better than another play which they had just seen and disliked. She finished it...

The lecture regularly given by Ann Curtis (later AH ) at James Graham 's Temple of HymenOn the present State and Influence of Women, on Society, in England, in France, in Spain...

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

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...