Sarah Siddons

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

Sarah Siddons played in Hamlet at the Theatre Royal in Bath; in the audience, probably, was the teenage Ann Ward (later AR ).

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...

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...

AO 's friendship with Anne and Annabella Plumptre (daughters of Robert Plumptre , Prebend of Norwich, both of whom grew up to be writers) dated from their shared childhood. Her friendship with the...

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)

In London she met many artists, writers, and politically active reformists: as well as Godwin , she met Elizabeth Inchbald , Mary Wollstonecraft (who impressed her deeply, and trusted her enough to confide her plans...

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...

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 .