Sarah Siddons

EI was introduced to John Philip Kemble (who was to become famous as an actor-manager), in Manchester, by his sister Sarah Siddons .

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...

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...

Of her paternal aunts, Sarah Siddons was immeasurably the most famous actress of her generation in Britain and Elizabeth Whitelock achieved some theatrical success in the USA, while Ann Hatton , the youngest and the...

One of FK 's paternal aunts, Sarah Siddons , became a celebrity as the leading tragic actress of her generation.

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.

There is again evidence that financial pressures played a part in her family's eagerness to see her in print. The volume was published under the name Letitia Elizabeth Landon and bore a dedication by...

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 In 1790 AML found Mariana Starke 's unpublished The British Orphans indelicate and Starke 's The Widow of Malabar showy but...

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...

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.

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. It had a prologue and epilogue by Harriet Lee

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...

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...

The Critical was brief and unfriendly: it said that the play, though not the best, is, perhaps, the bloodiest production of the modern drama . . . . The author is more obliged to a...

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...