I'm still struggling to definitively prove my possible connection to the Kemble family (Kemble family - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) so I've been playing around with creating a separate tree for them to keep the various notes in.
I'm fairly easily distracted and keep going off on tangents and the biography for one of them, Ann Julia Kemble, has me really intrigued.
Ann Julia Hatton (1764-1838), novelist, who wrote under the name “Ann [or Anne] of Swansea”, was the younger sister of Sarah Siddons.
She taught herself to read and wrote her first play aged 11, which was performed by her father’s theatrical company in Brecon.
Hatton believed that because of her limp and squint, her family ridiculed her as “the Genius”, and had her apprenticed to a mantua-maker.
In 1783, she married a bigamist and then earned her living by lecturing for James Graham, the quack doctor.
Attempting suicide in Westminster Abbey, she was accidentally shot in the face in a brothel.
Hatton wrote 14 novels between 1810 and 1831 mainly for Minerva Press, which included the exceedingly gory Cesario Rosalba: or the Oath of Vengeance (1819).
Can anyone unearth anything else about her that expands on these two events?
I'm assuming they are two different events, anyway
Zoe
I'm fairly easily distracted and keep going off on tangents and the biography for one of them, Ann Julia Kemble, has me really intrigued.
Ann Julia Hatton (1764-1838), novelist, who wrote under the name “Ann [or Anne] of Swansea”, was the younger sister of Sarah Siddons.
She taught herself to read and wrote her first play aged 11, which was performed by her father’s theatrical company in Brecon.
Hatton believed that because of her limp and squint, her family ridiculed her as “the Genius”, and had her apprenticed to a mantua-maker.
In 1783, she married a bigamist and then earned her living by lecturing for James Graham, the quack doctor.
Attempting suicide in Westminster Abbey, she was accidentally shot in the face in a brothel.
Hatton wrote 14 novels between 1810 and 1831 mainly for Minerva Press, which included the exceedingly gory Cesario Rosalba: or the Oath of Vengeance (1819).
Can anyone unearth anything else about her that expands on these two events?
I'm assuming they are two different events, anyway
Zoe
Comment