Howells, Coral Ann. Joanna Baillie and Her Circle, 1790-1850. Camden History Society, 1973.
John Philip Kemble
Standard Name: Kemble, John Philip
Used Form: J. P. Kemble
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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... |
| 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
. 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, 1998, pp. 469-00. 490n22 |
| 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... |
| 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 | 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, 1987. 175n13 |
| 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 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? qtd. in Manvell, Roger. Elizabeth Inchbald: England’s Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London. University Press of America, 1987. 18 |
| 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, 1995, 2 vols. 1: 192-3, 289-90 |
| 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, 1973–1993. 326 |
| 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 |
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