Records of a Girlhood eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 1,000 pages of information about Records of a Girlhood.

Records of a Girlhood eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 1,000 pages of information about Records of a Girlhood.

Siddons, Elizabeth, 291.

Siddons, “Lizzy,” 119.

Siddons, “Sally and Lizzy,” 342.

Siddons, George, 158, 323; Mrs. George, 158

Siddons, Harriet, 323.

Siddons, Henry, management of the Edinburgh Theatre, 142;
  death, ib.;
  arrival in India and departure for Delhi, 119, 470.

Siddons, Mrs. Henry, 140, 141, 143, 158, 164, 180, 193, 259, 261, 286, 291, 305, 359, 364.

Siddons.  Maria, 17,
  engaged to Sir Thomas Lawrence, 207;
  death, ib.

Siddons, Sarah, 17, 91;
  in Louisa of Savoy, 117, 129;
  painting by Gainsborough, 162;
  in Elvira, 174;
  costume in the “Grecian Daughter,” 190;
  as Hamlet, 200;
  Lawrence’s admiration for, 207;
  wishes to be carried to her grave by Lawrence, 211;
  indifference, 223;
  Fanny Kemble compared with, 234;
  in Euphrasia, 236;
  shocked at Lawrence’s death, 237, 239;
  Edinburgh audiences, 261: 
  repeating Lady Macbeth to an enthusiastic audience, 262;
  opinion of, 262;
  dearest friend, 270;
  in Mrs. Haller and “The Fair Penitent,” 318;
  Christmas eve at her house, 322, 337;
  advantage over Fanny Kemble, 336, 345;
  Lord Lansdowne’s admiration for, 349, 396;
  failing health, 399;
  Milton and Shakespeare, 416;
  her death, 416;
  her abuse of Austria in “King John,” 446;
  her letters, 452;
  Queen Katharine, 459;
  her letters revised by Emily Fitzhugh, 477;
  Lady Macbeth, 478;
  “sketches” of Constance and Lady Macbeth, 517.

Siddons, Mrs. Scott-, 158.

Shaw, 60.

Sismondi, 83.

Sinclair, 123.

Skeeper, Anne, marriage to Barry Cornwall, 353.

Skerries, 273, 329.

Slavery in America, 543.

Smart, Sir George, 95, 100, 395.

Smiles, his biography of Stephenson, 279.

Smith’s “National Scottish Songs,” 160.

Smith, Bobus, 347.

Smith, James, 86.

Smith, Sidney, 142, 173, 347, 504

Smithson, Miss, 115.

Solomon, 166.

Somerset, Duchess of, 173, 510.

“Sonnambula,” 507.

Sontag, appearance with Malibran in “Romeo and Juliet,” 201, 202.

Sotheby ("the poet"), 350;
  “Darnley,” 370;
  comments on Fanny Kemble’s beauty, 370.

Southampton, 271, 416, 451.

Spain, 293.

Spaniards, John Kemble delivered to the, 336.

Spanish expedition, 326.

Spanish revolution, 335, 336, 356, 359, 478;
  Torrijos and his friends shot, 479.

Spedding, James, 183.

Spenser, poetry of, 358.

Spurzheim, his philosophy of phrenology, 151;
  death in Boston, 558.

Stafford, 92, 113, 297.

St. Albans, Duke of, marriage, 392.

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