Yet Sarah Siddons, the most celebrated actress of her era, was often the recipient of anonymous letters accusing her of being financially grasping – and, imagines April de Angelis in this ...

Actress Sarah Siddons was one of the greatest performers of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, not the greatest time to be a woman on the stage. And by the time she retired she was worth a ...

In the chapel of St Andrew in the north transept of Westminster Abbey is a larger than life-size (seven feet two inches, with a three foot plinth) white marble statue to Sarah Siddons, reputed to be ...

Sarah Siddons plays Hamlet ... the brighter talent and the bigger draw at the box office. As a struggling actress she earned about £3 a week but at the height of her popularity Siddons was ...