Sarah Siddons

Standard Name: Siddons, Sarah

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Friends, Associates Elizabeth Inchbald
EI laid the foundations of her lifelong friendship with Sarah Siddons while the two of them were acting with Joseph Younger 's company in Liverpool in 1776. Later she became a close friend of another...
Friends, Associates Hester Lynch Piozzi
She attempted match-making for Harriet. With Frances Burney (whom she first saw again in 1790) she rebuilt civil but never close relations. She became, however, an intimate friend of the actress Sarah Siddons .
Clifford, James L. Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs Thrale). Clarendon Press.
362, 335-6
Friends, Associates Mary Somerville
The Somervilles' circle was not purely a scientific one, and MS became a friend of the actress Lady Becher and with the Baillie family. She accompanied Joanna Baillie to the opening of the latter's play...
Friends, Associates Mary Robinson
After MR became known as the prince's mistress, the double standard in public morality made it virtually impossible for respectable women to treat her as a friend. Her admiration for Sarah Siddons was not reciprocated...
Friends, Associates Isabella Banks
The actress Mrs M'Gibbon , known as the Manchester Mrs Siddons , was a close friend of IB 's family.
Burney, Edward Lester. Mrs. G. Linnaeus Banks. E. J. Morten.
23
IB 's relationship with Florence Fenwick Miller developed from a professional into a personal...
Friends, Associates Fanny Kemble
Harriet Siddons was the widow of Sarah Siddons 's youngest son, the actor-manager Henry . While in Edinburgh, FK met Anna Jameson and engaged in frivolous courtships.
Marshall, Dorothy. Fanny Kemble. Weidenfeld and Nicholson.
28, 42
Clinton, Catherine. Fanny Kemble’s Civil Wars. Simon and Schuster.
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Friends, Associates Sophia Lee
Those present included Hester Lynch Piozzi , Hannah More and her sisters, Sarah Siddons , and others. The great point at issue was the gender of the anonymous author.
Friends, Associates Hannah More
Here she began to gather the circle of friends which by the end of her long life had touched every cranny of English society. She had already met Edmund Burke in Bristol the previous September...
Friends, Associates Helen Maria Williams
There she began to frequent Elizabeth Montagu 's bluestocking circle. She was introduced in cultural circles by Andrew Kippis , minister of the church her family attended, and soon knew William Hayley , Sarah Siddons
Intertextuality and Influence Claire Luckham
The metatheatrical first act takes place during rehearsals for William ShakespeareRomeo and Juliet (in which Kemble made her triumphant stage debut on 5 October 1829); in it Kemble's aunt Sarah Siddons instructs her niece on playing...
Leisure and Society Mary Somerville
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...
Leisure and Society Ann Radcliffe
Sarah Siddons played in Hamlet at the Theatre Royal in Bath; in the audience, probably, was the teenage Ann Ward (later AR ).
She is said to have been dazzled by her early sight...
Leisure and Society Anna Seward
AS was several times painted by George Romney . One portrait, in fashionable garb, belonged to her father. Another was treasured by William Hayley , then vanished from sight. A century later it was found...
Literary responses Felicia Hemans
The play's debut was disappointing. It closed after a single night, though it was remounted with greater success in Edinburgh the following April with Harriet Siddons in a major role (having been recruited at Joanna Baillie
Literary responses Joanna Baillie
Sarah Siddons , who starred in the play, much admired it.
Dowd, Maureen A. “’By the Delicate Hand of a Female’: Melodramatic Mania and Joanna Baillie’s Spectacular Tragedies”. European Romantic Review, Vol.
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, No. 4, pp. 469-00.
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But JB felt that reviewers cooled towards it once they knew the author was an unknown woman. John any-body would have stood higher...

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