LIFE

OF

MRS. SIDDONS.

BY THOMAS CAMPBELL.

"Pity it is that the momentary beauties flowing from a harmonious elocution
cannot, like those of poetry, be their own record;—that the animated graces of the
Player can live no longer than the instant breath and motion that represent them;
or at least can but faintly glimmer through the memory and imperfect attestation of
a few surviving spectators."

CIBBER.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

EFFINGHAM WILSON, ROYAL EXCHANGE.

1834.

J. AND C. ADLARD, PRINTERS,

Bartholomew Close.

CONTENTS OF VOL. II.

CHAPTER I.

Mrs. Siddons acts Lady Macbeth-Her own Remarks on the

Character.

CHAPTER II.

Page 3-49

Observations on Mrs. Siddons's Estimate of Lady Macbeth's

Character, and on that given by Mrs. Jameson, in her

"Characteristics of Women."
P. 43-56

CHAPTER III.

Continuation of the Season at Drury Lane-Mrs. Siddons

plays Desdemona, Mason's Elfrida, and Rosalind, in

"As You Like It"-Mrs. Siddons in Scotland-Season

1785-6-She appears in the " Jubilee"-in Jephson's

Braganza"-as Mrs. Lovemore, in Murphy's Comedy of

"The Way to Keep Him"-as Hermione, in "The

Distressed Mother"-as Ophelia.
59-90