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	Sarah Siddons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sarah Siddons (July 5, 1755 - June 8, 1831) was a British actress, the best-known of the 18th century.
		Sarah Siddons died in 1831 in London and was interred there in Saint Mary's Cemetery at Paddington Green.
		The American Sarah Siddons Award for dramatic achievement in theatre was named in her honor.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sarah_Siddons (224 words)

	Sarah Siddons
		She was engaged at the time to the actor William Siddons, and named Sarah Kemble before her marriage to William on November the 26th, 1773 in Coventry; she was 18 years of age.
		Sarah was employed as a maid, though family records suggest that she was also a prized 'reader' to the family.
		Siddons' warm, rich voice and majestic presence held audiences in awe, and though she shunned publicity, she won the praise of the poets and critics of her day.
	www.sarahsiddonssociety.org /html/Sarah_Kemble_Siddons_Bio.html (399 words)

	SARAH SIDDONS - LoveToKnow Article on SARAH SIDDONS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Siddons was dismissed from the company, and she was sent to a situation as ladys maid to Mrs Greathead at Guys Cliff in Warwickshire.
		The necessary consent to her union with Siddons was at last obtained, and the marriage took place at Trinity Church, Coventry, on the 26th of November 1773.
		Mrs Siddons died in London on the 8th of June 1831, and was buried in Paddington churchyard.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SI/SIDDONS_SARAH.htm (892 words)

	Sarah Siddons
		Born in 1755, Sarah Siddons was thought by many to be the greatest English tragic actress of her time.
		Sarah Siddons is thought by many to have been the greatest English tragic actress of her time.
		Sarah Siddons was born in Brecon, Breckonshire, Wales on July 5, 1755, the eldest child of Roger and Sarah Kemble.
	ks.essortment.com /sarahsiddons_renx.htm (551 words)

	Siddons, Sarah
		She was the eldest of 12 children of Roger and Sarah Kemble, who led a troupe of traveling actors (and were progenitors of a noted family of actors to a third generation, including a famous granddaughter, Fanny Kemble).
		The necessary consent to her marriage to Siddons was at last obtained, and the marriage took place in Trinity Church, Coventry, in November 1773.
		Siddons as the Tragic Muse." William Hazlitt wrote of her that "passion emanated from her breast as from a shrine.
	search.eb.com /shakespeare/micro/545/97.html (592 words)

	Sarah Siddons
		Sarah Siddons was built by Metropolitan Vickers of Barrow and is fitted with Metro Vick control gear and traction motors of 300 hp each giving a total power output of 1200 hp.
		Sarah Siddons today has had many alterations made to her in line with past test duties and some for modern running conditions.
		Inside Sarah Siddons is very sparse, the driving position is almost identical with that of the former Southern Railway 4 SUB units, which dated from 1936, a type with which I had more than a passing acquaintance.
	www.lococarriage.org.uk /sarah.htm (943 words)

	Sarah Siddons
		Once one of the most famous women in Britain, Sarah Siddons achieved stardom through her remarkable dramatic powers and reached legendary status by making savvy use of art to shape her personal and professional reputation.
		Sarah Siddons with the Emblems of Tragedy, 1793.
		Siddons was one of the few performers capable of holding audiences spellbound, but even she had to contend with the occasional riot.
	www.huntington.org /ArtDiv/Siddons/Siddons.htm (495 words)

	Sarah Siddons: Actress Of Theatre, Queen of Tragedy
		Sarah Kemble, later known as Sarah Siddons, was born on July 5, 1775 at The Shoulder of Mutton Public House in Brecknockshire, Wales.
		She was the oldest of 12 and the daughter of Roger and Sarah Kemble.
		She disagreed and so Sarah was sent to work as a lady’s maid in Guys Cliff, Warwickshire in order to keep her away from her true love.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/15003/90133 (470 words)

	Woolsey, Sarah Chauncey -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Sarah Winnemucca was born in 1844 near Humboldt Lake, Nev. Some say she was the daughter of Old Winnemucca and the granddaughter of John C. Frémont's guide Captain Truckee.
		Sarah and her brothers and sisters joined their mother on a ranch in California with Truckee, where Sarah first spent time...
		Sarah Vaughan was revered as the Divine One for her rich operatic voice which, with its instrumental three-octave range, and for helping to define bebop during the 1940s.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9126053?tocId=9126053 (636 words)

	Newsletter 14.1 Spring 1999 (Conservation at the Getty)
		Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse, a 1784 painting by Joshua Reynolds, part of the Huntington Art Collections.
		Sir Joshua Reynolds's portrait of the famous English tragic actress Sarah Siddons was hailed at the time of its first exhibition in 1784 as one of the greatest portraits of all time; it still ranks among the significant works of late-18th-century art.
		The publication of this volume, entitled A Passion for Performance: Sarah Siddons and Her Portraitists, coincides with the exhibition to be held at the Getty from July 27 to September 19, 1999.
	www.getty.edu /conservation/publications/newsletters/14_1/gcinews01.html (717 words)

	The Hat - Shattered Dreams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Sarah massages her head, scratches her scalp with her varnished fingernails, her thin hair sticks up untidily around a wide gauze bandage.
		Sarah plops in the armchair, draws her hands down her face, recollects what had happened.
		Sarah was sure she would forever see the man lying there, so still.
	www.tased.edu.au /tasonline/sww/thehat.htm (1777 words)

	BBC - Legacies - Work - England - Hereford and Worcester - Sarah Siddons - Article Page 3
		When Sarah was about seventeen, she fell in love with an actor called William Siddons, then a member of Kemble’s company.
		Women like Sarah Siddons also wanted to challenge the widespread belief that an actress was little more than a prostitute who sold her body on stage.
		But in certain ways Sarah was lucky: for much of her career, her husband took on the often tiresome task of negotiating her salary with theatre managers.
	www.bbc.co.uk /legacies/work/england/hereford_worcester/article_3.shtml (464 words)

	Additional Reading (from Siddons, Sarah) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The most acclaimed tragic actress of her day, Sarah Siddons reigned supreme on the English stage from the 1780s until her farewell performance in 1812.
		Her success was due to her complete concentration upon the character whom she played: she identified herself with a role and seemed possessed by it, oblivious of all else around her.
		A celebrated French actress, Sarah Bernhardt is one of the best-known figures in the history of the stage.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-6652?tocId=6652 (689 words)

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		The famed stage actress Sarah Siddons was born on July 5, 1755 at the Shoulder of Mutton Inn in the town of Brecon to Roger Kemble and Sally Ward Kemble.
		Sarah, therefore received a fairly substantial education, for a girl from a family that was constantly moving on.
		Siddons was fired from the company and Sarah was placed as a companion/servant in a family of titled aristocrats.
	www.gwu.edu /~klarsen/actors.html (5594 words)

	Family of Wilfred Junior Siddons - Person Page 7
		Sarah was born at High Littleton, Somerset, England, in 1850.
		Sarah Ann Sage was baptized on 10 February 1850 at High Littleton, Somerset, England.
		Sarah Ann Sage was baptized on 26 December 1841 at High Littleton, Somerset, England.
	www.mindspring.com /~siddons/genealogy/dad/p7.htm (1413 words)

	Minchinhampton Dramatic Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The butterfly that is the MDS emblem is part of a gentle ghost story concerning Sarah Siddons, the famous 18th century actress.
		Sarah exclaimed dramatically that it represented her spirit and that after her death she would return as a butterfly to bless future productions on that stage.
		Sarah's presence is assured in another way too; her portrait hangs above the proscenium arch.
	www.minchinhamptondrama.co.uk /butterfly.htm (124 words)

	AllRefer.com - Sarah Kemble Siddons (Theater, Biography) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The most distinguished of the famous Kemble family, she had early theatrical experience in her father's traveling company, and at 18 she married William Siddons, an actor.
		Brought to the attention of David Garrick, she was engaged by him for a Drury Lane performance in 1775–76, which failed.
		Siddons (1827); biographies by R. Manvell (1971) and T. Campbell (1839, repr.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/S/Siddons.html (323 words)

	Cultivating Celebrity
		Lawrence made numerous portraits of Siddons and her family over the course of an obsessive and stormy relationship that endured for the rest of his life.
		A fascinated public followed Siddons beyond the stage and into her private life through the agency of eighteenth-century equivalents of today's paparazzi.
		The exhibition concludes with posthumous tributes to the actress, including the erection of statues in Westminster Abbey and Paddington Green, and the founding of a prestigious theatrical prize in her honor by the Sarah Siddons Society of Chicago.
	www.huntington.org /ArtDiv/Siddons/Celebrity.htm (630 words)

	BBC - Legacies - Work - England - Hereford and Worcester - Sarah Siddons - Article Page 4
		Sarah Siddons’ most famous Shakespearean parts included Lady Macbeth (a role in which she inspired awe, amazement and terror, especially in the sleepwalking scene), Isabella in Measure for Measure and Constance in King John.
		According to the great theatre critic William Hazlitt, Sarah Siddons was tragedy personified, a goddess of the modern world.
		Sarah Siddons’ success brought her into contact with many of the leading political, literary and artistic figures of the day.
	www.bbc.co.uk /legacies/work/england/hereford_worcester/article_4.shtml (350 words)

	The Legend of Sarah Siddons
		The occasion is the presentation of the Sarah Siddons award statuette, modeled on Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse.
		In 1971 Lauren Bacall received the Sarah Siddons award for her performance in Applause, the musical version of All About Eve, in which she played the role that Bette Davis had first immortalized.
		Sarah Siddons launched a classic Hollywood film, and that film has ensured the survival of her legend to the present day.
	www.huntington.org /ArtDiv/Siddons/Legend.htm (400 words)

	Talkin' Broadway - What's New on the Rialto? - Book Review: "Look to the Lady: Sarah Siddons, Ellen Terry, and Judi ...
		For many of her contemporaries, Siddons brought a naturalness to her performances that was revolutionary, but there were some who found her a brilliant but essentially artificial actress, even if she calculated her effects brilliantly and the goal of the calculation was to seem natural.
		As with the chapter on Siddons, there is one odd contradiction in what McDonald writes: he asserts that Terry was more successful in Shakespeare's comedies than in the tragedies, yet he also writes, "The parts at which she excelled and which she repeated most frequently...
		Another contrast with Siddons was that Terry usually deferred to the choices of her stage partner, Henry Irving, in both repertoire and interpretations, as opposed to Siddons's aggressiveness in running her own career.
	www.talkinbroadway.com /rialto/past/2005/04_29_05.html (1366 words)

	Walker, Sarah Breedlove -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Sarah Breedlove married at the age of 14, and at 20, then a widow, she moved to St. Louis, Missouri.
		She was born Sarah Breedlove on Dec. 23, 1867, in Delta, La. In 1905 she invented a formula to straighten curly hair and started laboratories to manufacture it.
		Born in Eatonton, Ga., on Feb. 9, 1944, Walker—who was blinded in one eye from an accidental gunshot wound—won a scholarship for disabled students that enabled her to attend Spelman College in Atlanta, Ga. She became involved in civil rights demonstrations at the college, and she later transferred to Sarah Lawrence College in New...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9075942&ref=news0205 (680 words)

	Variety.com - Reviews - The Affliction of Glory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
		Dwyer's play was commissioned by the Getty to complement the musem's current exhibit, "A Passion for Performance: Sarah Siddons and her Portraitists." Siddons (1755-1831) was the iconic actress for whom a much-coveted award in the film "All About Eve" was named.
		Matters are divided in twain: Siddons (Nike Doukas) musing on her life and art while sitting for a famous portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds (JD Cullum), and Polly and Bill (Doukas and Cullum again) attempting to stage a play about Siddons.
	www.variety.com /review/VE1117752037?categoryid=33&cs=1 (529 words)

	Sarah Siddons: Actress Of Theatre, Queen of Tragedy
		Sarah lived 19 years beyond retirement till the age of 76.
		The contemporary Sarah Siddons Distinguished Acting Award is given to actresses still today.
		Sarah Kemble Siddons will forever hold the throne as the Queen of pain, tragedy and sadness but will also stand for a woman that lived a dream, satisfied her soul and created a history in the performance arts known as the theatre.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/her_story/90133/3 (440 words)

	A Passion for Performance: Sarah Siddons and Her Portraitists - Getty Museum - Absolutearts.com
		Siddons was painted not only by Sir Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough, but also by Gilbert Stuart, Sir Thomas Lawrence, and George Romney, each of whom is represented by major works on loan for the exhibition.
		A related exhibition devoted to the legend of Sarah Siddons, Cultivating Celebrity: Portraiture as Publicity in the Career of Sarah Siddons, concurrently at the The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
		A lecture by Robyn Asleson, Model, Muse, Myth: Incarnations of Sarah Siddons, Star of the British Stage, August 5, 1999 at 7 PM in the Harold M. Williams Auditorium at the Getty Center.
	www.absolutearts.com /artsnews/1999/08/04/25742.html (601 words)

	Sarah Siddons Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Sarah Siddons Society is a non-profit organization promoting excellence in the theatre.
		For almost 50 years, the Society has presented the annual Sarah Siddons Award to an actor for an outstanding performance in a Chicago theatrical production.
		The winner receives a striking statuette replica of Sarah Siddons (1775 - 1831), one of the great tragediennes of the English stage.
	www.sarahsiddonssociety.org (124 words)

	Sarah Siddons Society Records
		The Sarah Siddons Society was founded in 1952 by a small group of eminent Chicago theater-goers, including Mrs.
		Officially incorporated as a non-profit organization in 1960, the Sarah Siddons Society is governed by an elected President and Board of Governors.
		The Sarah Siddons Society Records are available to the public for research in the Special Collections and Preservation Division Reading Room on the 9th floor of the Chicago Public Library’s Harold Washington Library Center, 400 South State Street, Chicago, Illinois, 60605.
	www.chipublib.org /008subject/012special/sss.html (1404 words)

	Sarah Siddons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Her father Roger Kemble managed a small traveling theatrical company, of which Sarah was a member from her earliest childhood.
		By the 1780s she was so famous that her performances at Drury Lane drew large crowds.
		Her crowning achievement was her portrayal of Lady Macbeth at Covent Garden a role in which she ended her career upon the stage in 1812.
	www.ccnmtl.columbia.edu /projects/mmt/burke/bios/siddons.html (70 words)

	Tate Britain \| Past Exhibitions \| Joshua Reynolds
		Joshua Reynolds Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse, 1784/9
		Sarah Siddons was the eldest daughter of a strolling actor-manager, Roger Kemble, and sister of Charles Kemble, who also became a famous actor.
		She became celebrated as the greatest tragic actress of her day in 1782 when performing at the Drury Lane theatre owned by Reynolds's friend Sheridan, and managed to maintain that position until her official retirement in 1812.
	www.tate.org.uk /britain/exhibitions/reynolds/c_siddons.shtm (102 words)

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