Sarah Siddons

An epilogue she wrote for Joanna Baillie 's tragedy De Montfort was spoken by Sarah Siddons when the play opened at Drury Lane Theatre , London, on 29 April 1800. The duchess said...

Sarah Siddons , who starred in the play, much admired it. But JB felt that reviewers cooled towards it once they knew the author was an unknown woman. John any-body would have stood higher...

The volume included praise of Elizabeth Fry , and JB 's own epistle To Mrs Siddons, in which, while warmly praising the great tragedienne's former performances, she argues that even in retirement Siddons still...

The actress Mrs M'Gibbon , known as the Manchester Mrs Siddons , was a close friend of IB 's family.IB 's relationship with Florence Fenwick Miller developed from a professional into a personal...

Despite her relative poverty, MB moved easily in circles of the great and the good. Her closest friends were Anne Damer (whose death in 1828 was a terrible loss), Joanna Baillie (whom in 1831 she...

There are occasional moments of wit, as when destitution reveals that the family servants think terms of practical life rather than sentimental fiction: the old-fashioned type of servant, who appears so frequently in Morton 's...

She had to cancel this appearance because of influenza contracted while travelling to Bath. The sore throat which attended the illness weakened her voice considerably. She found no further chance to act. She had...

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

FB 's tragedy Edwy and Elgiva, the only one of her plays to reach the stage in her lifetime, had its single performance at Drury Lane , starring Sarah Siddons .

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 .

The high-minded and courageous Cleonice (the Sarah Siddons role) is torn between duty to her husband and her tyrannical father, who are at war. She tries in vain to make peace between them, definitively siding...

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...

One early performance drew bigger crowds than Drury Lane, although the rival theatre that night featured Sarah Siddons on stage and the king and queen in the audience. More Ways Than One was published on...

AD was not only a diarist, novelist, and amateur actress: she became, from the 1780s, a successful and even famous sculptor. Andrew Elfenbein notes the application to her of such terms as female genius and...

AD 's wide circle of friends included Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire , Lady Melbourne , Joanna Baillie , Sarah Siddons , the Berrysisters , the dramatist Lady Elizabeth Craven (formerly Berkeley, later Margravine of Anspach)