Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
John Philip Kemble
Standard Name: Kemble, John Philip
Used Form: J. P. Kemble
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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... |
| 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 |
| 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... |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Somerville | The Somervilles' circle was not purely a scientific one, and MS
became a friend of the actress Lady Becher
and with the Baillie family. She accompanied Joanna Baillie
to the opening of the latter's play... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Adelaide Kemble | Actor Charles Kemble
, father of Fanny
and AK
, took on the share of his brother John Philip Kemble
in Covent Garden Theatre
. Within a couple of years he took on the major... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Adelaide Kemble | AK
's uncle John Philip Kemble
was as celebrated an actor as his sister Sarah Siddons. Marshall, Dorothy. Fanny Kemble. Weidenfeld and Nicholson. 7, 279 Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Fanny Kemble | FK
's father, the actor Charles Kemble
, inherited the management of Covent Garden Theatre
in London in 1817 (at a time when it was in financial difficulties) when his brother John Philip Kemble
retired. Marshall, Dorothy. Fanny Kemble. Weidenfeld and Nicholson. 7, 12 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Fanny Kemble | FK
' uncle John Philip Kemble
, her father's brother, was one of the most noted Shakespearean actors of his generation. In 1795 he went backstage and tried to force himself upon the actress who... |
| 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. 21 |
| 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. 326 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Maria Theresa Kemble | They had become engaged in 1800. John Philip Kemble
and other family members disapproved, and perhaps hoped that Charles would change his mind if made to wait. People saw MTK
's manners as rough 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. 16 Inchbald, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. A Simple Story, edited by Jane Spencer and Joyce Marjorie Sanxter Tompkins, Oxford University Press, p. vii - xxxiii. xxxi |
| 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. 18 |
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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