Judith Barrow has a new novel, Sisters, coming out in January, so she is running a series of posts on famous sisters. This is the first, and fascinating it is, too.
(By strange coincidence, I also have a new novel coming out in January, which also deals with sisters, and sibling complications).
Sisters Ann of Swansea and Sarah Siddon
Ann Hatton and her older sister Sarah, were the daughters of Roger Kemble and Sarah Ward, who led a troupe of travelling actors. Sarah was born in Brecon in July 1755, Ann, otherwise known as Ann of Swansea, in Worcester in April 1764. There were ten other siblings.
All, except Ann, were early performers on stage with their parents.Considered by her family to be unsuitable to be on stage, owing to a disability (she had a slight limp), Ann was more or less excluded from the family. Later in life she often said she received little love from her parents, and that her education wasneglected.
In contrast Sarah was well educated, adored by her parents, and performed her first major Shakespearean role, as Ariel, at the age of nine.
Yet both fell in love with men whom…
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Thorne Moore 
Thanks for the RT, Thorne.
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