Sarah Siddons

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...

There are occasional moments of wit, as when destitution reveals that the family servants think terms of practical life rather than sentimental fiction: the old-fashioned type of servant, who appears so frequently in Morton 's...

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...

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...

The poem picked out by the Critical Review as the principal one, occupying fourteen pages, is entitled Lines found on the Stairs of the Tour de la Chapelle of the Bastile. These lines, powerful...

The volume included praise of Elizabeth Fry , and JB 's own epistle To Mrs Siddons, in which, while warmly praising the great tragedienne's former performances, she argues that even in retirement Siddons still...

Some years before her death CB wrote her tragedy Belisarius on a story popularised by Marmontel in his Bélisaire, 1767 (which had first reached English in the same year as its French publication). Charles Kemble

It was small but handsome. Thomas Stothard did two of the illustrations. His design for sonnet 12 (Written on the Sea Shore.—October 1784—the month in which she crossed the Channel with her children...

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 .

She was said to have begun it on impulse when her husband laughed at her claim that she could produce something better than another play which they had just seen and disliked. She finished it...

NRS produced another biography, The Private Life of Mrs. Siddons : A Psychological Investigation, which followed two years after her play on the same subject.

Another of her plays, Mrs. Siddons, 1931, in four acts, was a first step towards her biography of the famous actress.

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).

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.

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...