Frances Twiss [née Kemble]

(1759-1822)

LBT ID: FrTwiss1822	B/BAP: 1759-12-28 DIED: 1822-10-03
SOURCES: Philip H. Highfill, Biographical Dictionary of Actors (1982) 8:329-32; thePeerage.com
The daughter of Roger Kemble and sister of Sarah Siddons and John Philip Kemble; after a stage career she married Francis Twiss in 1786 and later ran a school for girls.
REFERENCES TO Frances Twiss [née Kemble]: Elizabeth Inchbald to William Godwin, 10 September 1797 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 7 William Godwin to Elizabeth Inchbald, 13 September 1797 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 1 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. X. 1797