Siddons's

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"Off Season" by Anne Rivers Siddons - Giveaway Jinxy 2009

The net purse, like the queen's lace that Siddons's later obtains, provides a visual metaphor for Marie

Framing Romantic Dress: Mary Robinson, Princess Caroline and the Sex/Text 2006

Sarah Siddons's loss of a four-yard length of Marie

Framing Romantic Dress: Mary Robinson, Princess Caroline and the Sex/Text 2006

Yet the anecdotal material signifies: Siddons's lost lace was important to her not only because it brought Marie Antoinette to life, at least on stage, but also because it was lace — a textile that veils in the same way as the fictional/factual binary.

Framing Romantic Dress: Mary Robinson, Princess Caroline and the Sex/Text 2006

Cowley's 1783 A Bold Stroke for a Husband, female characters wear veils in order to assume false identities to confuse and manipulate their suitors and stage-manage the plots of their own stories; Siddons's

Framing Romantic Dress: Mary Robinson, Princess Caroline and the Sex/Text 2006

We never remember to have seen a stronger _levée en masse_ of cambric handkerchiefs in honour of O'Neill's _Mrs Haller_, or Siddons's _Isabella_, than of the ballet of "Nina;" while the affecting death-dance in "Masaniello" is still fresh in the memory of the admirers of Pauline Leroux.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 Various

[758] Mr. Kemble told Mr. Croker that 'Mr.. Siddons's pathos in the last scene of The Stranger quite overcame him, but he always endeavoured to restrain any impulses which might interfere with his previous study of his part.'

Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

It had been, you know, a great part of my aunt Siddons's, and nothing better proves her great dramatic genius than her having clothed so meager a part in such magnificent proportions as she gave to it, and filled out by her own poetical conception the bare skeleton Mr. Murphy's Euphrasia presented to her.

Records of a Girlhood Fanny Kemble 1851

She brought me my aunt Siddons's sketches of Constance and Lady Macbeth.

Records of a Girlhood Fanny Kemble 1851

I found a letter at home from Emily Fitzhugh; she writes me word she has been revising my aunt Siddons's letters; thence an endless discussion as to the nature of genius, what it is.

Records of a Girlhood Fanny Kemble 1851