Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1973–1993.
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Sarah Siddons
Standard Name: Siddons, Sarah
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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 Setting | Hannah Cowley | 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... |
| Occupation | Anna Eliza Bray | 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... |
| Occupation | Ann Hatton | Ann Kemble (later AH
) may have been acting at the Smock Alley TheatreDublin, the season after her sister
's first great success. |
| Occupation | Sophia Lee | In 1795 SL
subscribed, as Miss Lee of Belvedere and clearly for the use of the school, to James Marshall's Library
of Bath, a circulating library with a comparatively small proportion of fiction in its... |
| Occupation | Anne Damer | 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... |
| Occupation | Eliza Fletcher | This friendship was built on a shared interest in literature, in patronising the poor or socially oppressed who aspired to writing, in encouraging inoculation and in promoting Sunday schools. Eliza was interested particularly in the... |
| Performance of text | Frances Burney | 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
. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols. |
| Performance of text | Hannah Cowley | 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... |
| Performance of text | Georgiana Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire | 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. OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. Foreman, Amanda. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. HarperCollins, 1998. 331 |
| Publishing | Anna Brownell Jameson | The biographical impulse is everywhere evident in ABJ
's writing, including her writing on art. In addition to the full-length studies mentioned above, she published shorter articles on Albrecht Dürer
, Mrs Siddons
, and... |
| Publishing | Sophia Lee | One of the last postponements, in spring 1796, resulted from the illness of Sarah Siddons, who was to star in it along with her brothers. Lee, Sophia. “Introduction”. The Recess, edited by April Alliston, University Press of Kentucky, 2000, p. ix - lii. xxxiii |
| Publishing | Hester Lynch Piozzi | Her poetic oeuvre consists of a core of longish serious poems, a verse drama, other theatre pieces and a large penumbra of occasional poems and jeux d'esprit. She worked in the ode, essay, epistle, pastoral... |
| Publishing | Ann Yearsley | As early as March-April 1788 AY
's backers Eliza Dawson
and Wilmer Gossip
were suggesting that a play would offer a better chance of financial return than poetry. Yearsley drafted her lost play Bawdin at... |
| Publishing | Helen Maria Williams | The Poems were in two volumes, with HMW
's name in full, published by Rivington and Marshall
, with an engraved frontispiece drawn by Maria Cosway
. Subscribers included the Prince of Wales
(whose name... |
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