Ann Hatton
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Ann Julia Hatton, née Kemble (other married name Curtis; also known as Ann of Swansea) (1764-1838), was a popular novelist of the early 19th century.
Ann Hatton was a younger sister of the actress Sarah Siddons, who is said to have paid her to stay away from London so as to avoid embarrassment. Ann went to live in Swansea, where she kept a hotel.
[edit] Works
- Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects (1783) (under name Ann Curtis)
- Cambrian Pictures (1810) (first novel, under name Ann of Swansea)
- Lovers and Friends; or, Modern Attachments (1821)[1]
[edit] External links
- Moira Dearnley, ‘Hatton , Ann Julia (1764–1838)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 14 Nov 2006
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