Elizabeth Kemble (1763 - January 20, 1841) was a British actress.

Life

She was born in London, and she was a talented performer when she married Stephen Kemble

Stephen Kemble

George Stephen Kemble was a successful theatre manager, British actor, writer, and a member of the famous Kemble family....

, of the Kemble family

Kemble family

Kemble is the name of a family of English actors, all distinguished actors and actresses who reigned over the British stage for decades. The most famous were Sarah Siddons and her brother John Philip Kemble , the two eldest of the twelve children of Roger Kemble , a strolling player and manager of...

, in 1783. They acted together for several years both in London and in the provincial circuits. She outlived him by 19 years. Her most famous role was Yarico from the opera Inkle and Yarico

Inkle and Yarico

Inkle and Yarico is a comic opera first staged in London, England in August 1787, with music by Samuel Arnold and a libretto by George Colman the Younger....

 for which she was considered "universally" to be the best "ever seen". She died near Durham

Durham

Durham is a city in north east England. It is within the County Durham local government district, and is the county town of the larger ceremonial county...

.

Reputation

Theatre manager Tate Wilkinson

Tate Wilkinson

Tate Wilkinson , English actor and manager, was the son of a clergyman.His first attempts at acting were badly received, and it was to his wonderful gift of mimicry that he owed his success. His imitations, however, naturally gave offence to the important actors and managers whose peculiarities he...

 declared that next to Susannah Maria Cibber, Elizabeth Satchell was the best Ophelia

Ophelia

Ophelia is a fictional character in the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare. She is a young noblewoman of Denmark, the daughter of Polonius, sister of Laertes, and potential wife of Prince Hamlet.-Plot:...

 he ever saw.

The editor of Blackwood's Magazine

Blackwood's Magazine

Blackwood's Magazine was a British magazine and miscellany printed between 1817 and 1980. It was founded by the publisher William Blackwood and was originally called the Edinburgh Monthly Magazine. The first number appeared in April 1817 under the editorship of Thomas Pringle and James Cleghorn...

reported:

"In all the parts she played she was impassioned ; and all good judges who remember her will agree with us in thinking that she was an actress, not only of talent but of genius."

James Boaden

James Boaden

-Life:He was the son of William Boaden, a merchant in the Russia trade. He was born at Whitehaven, Cumberland, on 23 May 1762, and at an early age came with his parents to London, where he was educated for commerce...

was enthusiastic in her praise.
In 1792, the Thespian Magazine reported that "[Satchell] summons the resistless tear of compassion into the eyes of the most rugged and insensible – and while sympathy and feeling shall hold a place in the human heart, her representation of Yarrico [sic] will be attended with delight, and remembered with the most unbounded admiration.”