Sarah Siddons
It was the beginning of twenty years in which she was the queen of Drury Lane. Her celebrity status has been called "mythical" and "monumental". By "the mid-1780s Siddons was established as a cultural icon." She mixed with the literary and social elites of London society. She knew people like  Samuel Johnson, Edmund Burke,  Hester Thrale Piozzi, and William Windham.