Portrait of Fanny Kemble
Author: Judith Rae Loewen
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Published: 1981
Total Pages: 144
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Author: Judith Rae Loewen
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Published: 1981
Total Pages: 144
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Fanny Kemble
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 304
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Dorothie De Bear Bobbé
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Published: 1932
Total Pages: 351
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Catherine Clinton
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 0684844141
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA biography of the British stage star turned plantation mistress, whose abolitionist writings made her an unlikely heroine of the Union cause--and whose life intersected in bold and dramatic ways with the most tumultuous of American conflicts, the Civil War. 64 illustrations.
Author: Fanny Kemble
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Published: 1864
Total Pages: 360
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: James Sheridan Knowles
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Published: 1836
Total Pages: 92
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Published: 1947
Total Pages: 192
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Frances Anne Kemble
Publisher: Bandanna Books
Published: 2015-10-09
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780942208894
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA personal indictment of the institute of slavery in the Southern United States, as witnessed directly by Fanny Kemble, a British actress in 1838 and 1839. Her husband, the heir to the plantations in Georgia, however, forebade her to publish this material on pain of never seeing her daughters again. She complied, until the two daughters had reached the age of 21, and then allowed the journal to be published in 1863, when the Northern troops were already present along the coast near the Altamaha River, where the plantations were located. In a very personal way, she relates her many varied experiences, efforts to make life easier for the slaves despite her husband's stubborn resistance. As an English citizen, she had seen the total end of slavery throughout the British Empire in 1833, just a few years before her journey to Georgia. She ends her account with a stirring defense of Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, which had raised such a storm of controversy in the United States. Like Stowe, Kemble sees all sides of the situation, with her eyes and with her heart.
Author: Deirdre David
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2013-02-12
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 0812201744
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA ForeWord magazine Book of the Year for 2007 Charismatic, highly intelligent, and splendidly talented, Fanny Kemble (1809-93) was a Victorian celebrity, known on both sides of the Atlantic as an actress and member of the famous Kemble theatrical dynasty, as a fierce opponent of slavery despite her marriage to a wealthy slave owner, as a brilliantly successful solo performer of Shakespeare, and as the author of journals about her career and life on her husband's Georgia plantations. She was, in her own words, irresistible as a "woman who has sat at dinner alongside Byron . . . and who calls Tennyson, Alfred." Touring in America with her father in the early 1830s, Kemble impulsively wed the wealthy and charming Philadelphia bachelor Pierce Butler, beginning a tumultuous marriage that ended in a sensational divorce and custody battle fourteen years later. At the time of their marriage, Kemble had not yet visited the vast Georgia rice and cotton plantations to which Butler was heir. In the winter of 1838, they visited Butler's southern holdings, and a horrified Kemble wrote what would later be published on both sides of the Atlantic as Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation. An important text for abolitionists, it revealed the inner workings of a plantation and the appalling conditions in which slaves lived. Returning to England after her divorce, she fashioned a new career as a solo performer of Shakespeare's plays and as the author of memoirs, several travel narratives and collections of poems, a short novel, and miscellaneous essays on the theater. For the rest of her life, she would divide her time between the two countries. In the various roles she performed in her life, on stage and off—abolitionist, author, estranged wife—Kemble remained highly theatrical, appropriating and subverting nineteenth-century prescriptions for women's lives, ever rewriting the roles to which she was assigned by society and inheritance. Hers was truly a performed life, and in the first Kemble biography in twenty-five years to examine that life in its entirety, Deirdre David presents it in all its richness and complexity.
Author: Fanny Kemble
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Published: 1879
Total Pages: 632
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