Charlotte Tidswell

(1759 c.-1846)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Tidswell, Charlotte, 1759 or 60-1846 DNB: Tidswell, Charlotte (1759/60–1846), actress LBT ID: ChTidsw1846 VIAF ID: 100750460 LOC ID: no2009139522	B/BAP: 1759 DIED: 1846-09-03
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Actress at Drury Lane who specialized in chambermaid roles. At one time mistress to the duke of Norfolk, she raised Edmund Kean, by some thought to be her son. Charles Lamb described her as “the worst actress ever seen or heard.”
REFERENCES TO Charlotte Tidswell: Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning, [13 December 1800] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 2 Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 6 October 1827 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1: ¶ 1 Creevey, Thomas, 1768-1838, The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Ch. V: 1827 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1800 Found 1: ¶ 3