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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...