Edmund Kean

(1787-1833)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Kean, Edmund, 1787-1833 NRA: Kean Edmund (1787-1833) Actor DNB: Kean, Edmund (1787-1833), actor LBT ID: EdKean1833 VIAF ID: 20476434 LOC ID: n50046386	B/BAP: 1787-11-04 DIED: 1833-05-15
SOURCES: DNB; Prance, Companion to Charles Lamb (1983); Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
English tragic actor famous for his Shakespearean roles.
REFERENCES TO Edmund Kean: Lord Byron to Thomas Moore, 4 May 1814 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 2: ¶ 3 ¶ n3 Lord Byron to Thomas Moore, 18 May 1814 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lord Byron to S. T. Coleridge, 31 March 1815 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 2 Lord Byron to Thomas Moore, 23 April 1815 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 3 Lord Byron to Leigh Hunt, 1 June 1815 in Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Found 1: ¶ 2 Lord Byron to William Sotheby, 15 September 1815 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lord Byron to Thomas Moore, 28 October 1815 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 3 Lord Byron to Leigh Hunt, 14 March 1816 in Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth, 9 April 1816 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Maturin to John Murray, 22 June 1816 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 1: ¶ 2 John Gibson Lockhart to Jonathan Christie, 18 October 1816 in The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Found 1: ¶ 1 Walter Scott to Daniel Terry, 12 November 1816 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 3 John Murray to Lord Byron, 15 March 1817 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Lamb to William Ayrton, 12 May 1817 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Verse 1: p. 498b Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, “Notices to Correspondents” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 2 (March 1818) np Verse 2: p. p. Walter Scott to Robert Southey, 4 April 1819 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 4 Lord Byron to John Murray, 12 August 1819 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lord Byron to John Murray, 8 October 1820 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 2 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Letter to the Right Hon. Lord Byron (Edinburgh: William Wright, 1821) Found 1: ¶ 25 Lord Byron to John Murray, 10 May 1821 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 3 Robert Southey to George Ticknor, 16 July 1823 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 4 Robert Southey to Edith Southey, 30 December 1823 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 3 Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron (London: Henry Colburn, 1824) On the drama; on superstition Found 1: ¶ 9 Actors and Actresses Found 2: ¶ 2 ¶ 3 Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 12 May 1824 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1: ¶ 2 Wilson, John, 1785-1854, “Noctes Ambrosianae XVII” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 16 (November 1824) 585-601 Found 5: ¶ 10 ¶ 11 ¶ 13 ¶ 14 ¶ 15 Parry, William, fl. 1825, The Last Days of Lord Byron (London: Knight and Lacey, 1825) Chapter IX Found 1: ¶ 55 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Lord Byron. First Prose; The Weekly Messenger; The News. Found 1: ¶ 102 “James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd” in The Athenaeum 1 (26 February 1828) Found 1: ¶ Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1814 Found 7: ¶ 19 ¶ 20 ¶ 51 ¶ n1 ¶ n3 ¶ 1 ¶ 2 Life of Byron: 1815 Found 1: ¶ 19 Life of Byron: 1816 (I) Found 1: ¶ n1 Life of Byron: 1819 Life of Byron: 1820 Found 1: ¶ 12 Life of Byron: 1821 Life of Byron: 1824 Found 1: ¶ 116 “Lord Byron” in Monthly Review NS 13 (February 1830) 217-37 Found 1: ¶ n1 [Hugh Swinton Legaré], “Lord Byron’s Character and Writings” in The Southern Review 5 (May 1830) 463-522 Found 1: ¶ n1 “[Moore’s Letters and Journals of Lord Byron]” in Literary Gazette (8 January 1831) 23-25 Found 1: ¶ 15 [Charles Webb Le Bas], “Life of Lord Byron” in British Critic 4th Series 9 (April 1831) 257-324 Found 1: ¶ 97 [Hugh Swinton Legaré], “Byron’s Letters and Journals” in The Southern Review 7 (May 1831) 1-42 Found 1: ¶ 66 Thomas Babington Macaulay, “Moore's Life of Lord Byron” in Edinburgh Review 53 (June 1831) 544-572 Found 1: ¶ 9 Charles Lamb to Edward Moxon, [28 January 1834] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter I 1816 Chapter V 1818 Found 1: ¶ 23 Chapter VIII 1819 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. XXVII. 1822-1823 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 22: Paris in 1814 Found 1: ¶ 1 Ch. 24: Byron Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 2 Ch. 14: Literary Gazette Found 1: ¶ 3 Ch. 15: Literary Gazette Found 1: ¶ 7 Peter George Patmore, My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) William Hazlitt V Found 2: ¶ 12 ¶ 13 William Hazlitt VI Found 1: ¶ 10 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter IV. Found 1: ¶ 3 Chapter I. Found 1: ¶ 53 Morgan, Lady (Sydney), 1783-1859, Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Chapter XI Found 2: ¶ 3 ¶ 7 Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Chapter V Found 1: ¶ 10 Chapter II Found 1: ¶ 4 William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. XII 1812 Found 7: ¶ 22 ¶ 26 ¶ 27 ¶ 28 ¶ 38 ¶ 42 ¶ 49 Ch. XV 1814-17 Found 1: ¶ 25 Ch. III 1821-22 Found 1: ¶ 50 Ch. XXII Found 1: ¶ 15 Clarke, Charles Cowden, 1787-1877, Recollections of Writers (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878) Chapter I. Found 1: ¶ 17 Chapter II. Found 1: ¶ 3 John Keats Found 1: ¶ 6 James Thomas Hodgson, Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Chapter XV. 1816-18. Found 1: ¶ 3 Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chapter XIII. Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Chapter 4: 1815-17 Chapter 20: 1826-52 Found 1: ¶ 20 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. III: 1823-24 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1816 Letters: 1817 Found 1: ¶ 3 Letters: 1834 Found 1: ¶ 1