Sarah Siddons

Standard Name: Siddons, Sarah

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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.
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Clinton, Catherine. Fanny Kemble’s Civil Wars. Simon and Schuster.
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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...
Family and Intimate relationships Elizabeth Inchbald
EI was introduced to John Philip Kemble (who was to become famous as an actor-manager), in Manchester, by his sister Sarah Siddons .
Manvell, Roger. Elizabeth Inchbald: England’s Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London. University Press of America.
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Inchbald, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. A Simple Story, edited by Jane Spencer and Joyce Marjorie Sanxter Tompkins, Oxford University Press, p. vii - xxxiii.
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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...
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
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.
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.
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Dedications Ann Hatton
The future AH published with her name (Ann Curtis, sister of Mrs. Siddons) Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects, with a strong subscription list, dedicated to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire .
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
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Textual Production Ann Hatton
AH sent off family reminiscences designed for insertion in Thomas Campbell 's life of her sister Sarah Siddons (a work which was published in 1834).
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.
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Textual Production Ann Hatton
AH was apparently trying to raise money to print a work in verse called The Raconteur (which remained unpublished), and also to place her Sarah Siddons reminiscences.
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.
7: 175
Cultural formation Ann Hatton
The most noteworthy attribute of AH 's family was their theatrical involvement, which in her generation became theatrical fame. They held an insecure positon in the middle ranks; at the time of Ann's birth they...
Family and Intimate relationships Ann Hatton
The member of the family who achieved the greatest fame was the tragic actress Sarah Siddons (eldest of the family, and Ann's senior by nine years).
Wealth and Poverty Ann Hatton
The suicide attempt provided an occasion for anonymous friends to solicit the public on her behalf for money, also in terms calculated to annoy her relations. After this Sarah Siddons and John Philip Kemble reputedly...
Wealth and Poverty Ann Hatton
Still, even during her husband's lifetime AH was still dependent on her family. Sarah Siddons paid her an annuity of twenty or thirty pounds (continued under her will after she died), and brother John Philip Kemble
Textual Production Ann Hatton
The lecture regularly given by Ann Curtis (later AH ) at James Graham 's Temple of HymenOn the present State and Influence of Women, on Society, in England, in France, in Spain...
Family and Intimate relationships Ann Hatton
AH 's eldest sister, Sarah Kemble (later Siddons) , first appeared on stage (in a Worcester public house) in an entertainment to which admission was granted to those purchasing packets of tooth-powder.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.

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