Francis Twiss

[1][2] In London during the early 1780s, Twiss took an interest in the stage, and wrote some criticism.

He met John Philip Kemble, and took an interest in his sisters, marrying in the end Fanny.

[3] Twiss published in two volumes in 1805, A complete verbal Index to the Plays of Shakspeare, adapted to all the editions, with a dedication to John Philip Kemble.

[3] Praised by James Boaden two decades later, it was in its time more convenient than the comparable work of Samuel Ayscough.

She was the second daughter of Roger Kemble, the sister of Sarah Siddons, and had been courted unsuccessfully by George Steevens.