 She ascribed his death to his sensibility on the memorial stone she commissioned.Her husband had been a talented comic actor but his reputation was lost in his wife's fame and he had drunk himself to death following a cruel poem that cast his as the 'lubbard spouse' of Mrs Edwin.Edwin was engaged for Drury Lane, but before she reached the theatre, it burnt down, and on 14 October 1809, she appeared as Widow Cheerly in "The Soldier's Daughter", with the Drury Lane company at the Lyceum.