
Person; female; Actress, younger sister of Sarah Siddons (q.v.); courted by George Steevens (q.v.), but in 1786 married another Shakespeare scholar, Francis Twiss. From 1807 ran a girls' school in Bath.; actor/entertainer; British; fl.1783; 1822
Frances Kemble
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