John Philip Kemble

Standard Name: Kemble, John Philip
Used Form: J. P. Kemble

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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
Violence Maria Theresa Kemble
Maria De Camp (later MTK ) was the object of a drunken sexual assault by the leading actor John Philip Kemble (whose brother she later married).
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 Elizabeth Inchbald
John Philip Kemble wrote the following May to ask after her progress. He imagined the story melodramatically, and enquired: how many distressed damsels and valorous knights?
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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This year Inchbald was indeed reading sentimental novels...
Textual Production Frances Burney
FB was probably working on two comedies, The Woman-Hater and A Busy Day, and planning her casts to include Sarah Siddons and John Philip Kemble .
Burney, Frances. The Complete Plays of Frances Burney. Editor Sabor, Peter, William Pickering.
1: 192-3, 289-90
Textual Production Sarah Gardner
SG wrote a one-act farce entitled Charity, with a brief preface and a prologue, which dramatises her experience of being exploited as a professional performer involved with amateurs. She said she wrote this not...
Textual Features Elizabeth Inchbald
At about 60,000 words, A Simple Story was a short novel for its day, especially perhaps for a story embracing two generations.
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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It is a domestic story which is a kind of forerunner of...
Textual Features Naomi Royde-Smith
NRS opens her story with Jane Fairfax as a little orphan growing up in the family of Colonel and Mrs Campbell, whose naughty daughter Euphrasia is a likable foil to her throughout. She ends it...
Textual Features Mary Julia Young
MJY 's poem, in fast-moving heroic couplets, opens with Genius invoking the aid of Fancy. Fancy insists that the most beautiful and versatile of the muses is Thalia (who presides over comedy). After urging the...
Performance of text Joanna Baillie
Produced by J. P. Kemble in a version adapted by himself, this performance included an epilogue by Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire .
Howells, Coral Ann. Joanna Baillie and Her Circle, 1790-1850. Camden History Society.
Dowd, Maureen A. “’By the Delicate Hand of a Female’: Melodramatic Mania and Joanna Baillie’s Spectacular Tragedies”. European Romantic Review, Vol.
9
, No. 4, pp. 469-00.
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The play was revived by Edmund Kean in 1821, for five nights...
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...
Intertextuality and Influence Aphra Behn
There opened at Drury Lane Theatre a comedy entitled Love in Many Masks, by John Philip Kemble , which was adapted from AB 's The Rover.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
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Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
69 (1790): 593
Friends, Associates Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
They included public men like George Canning , John Philpot Curran , and Lord Erskine , and writers and theatre people like John Philip Kemble , George Colman the younger, dramatist and examiner of plays...
Friends, Associates Fanny Kemble
They met when St Leger, a friend of FK 's uncle John Philip Kemble , visited his widow at Heath Farm in England. Their subsequent correspondence became the basis for Kemble's multi-volume recollections.
Marshall, Dorothy. Fanny Kemble. Weidenfeld and Nicholson.
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Friends, Associates Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan
Sydney Morgan's genius for social life, and for forging relations with famous and celebrated people, continued from youth to age. On her second visit to London she met the bluestocking hostess the Countess of Cork and Orrery

Timeline

30 September 1783: John Philip Kemble made his first appearance...

Building item

30 September 1783

John Philip Kemble made his first appearance (as Hamlet) at Drury Lane Theatre .

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