Fanny Kemble
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Standard Name: Kemble, Fanny
Birth Name: Frances Anne Kemble
Married Name: Frances Anne Butler
FK
was a prolific nineteenth-century writer best known for her journals, which covered her life in the theatre and her residence in the American south. Her first-hand documentation of the institution of slavery was particularly controversial. Apart from her journals she experimented with drama, poetry, and autobiography, and—late in life—wrote her very first and only novel.
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Friends, Associates | Harriet Martineau | HM
's social circle vastly expanded at this time until she knew virtually all the prominent people, particularly the political men, of her day. As she recorded in her Autobiography, however, she refused to... |
Friends, Associates | Frances Power Cobbe | FPC
also numbered Americans among her wide circle of friends. Louisa May Alcott
recalled vividly how her assumption that FPC
would be a serious, severe lady, of the Cornelia Blimber school was immediately banished on... |
Friends, Associates | Caroline Norton | |
Friends, Associates | Mary Elizabeth Coleridge | Her parents often hosted musical and cultural events that drew visitors from London's artistic circles. As a girl, MEC
would have seen Alfred Tennyson
, John Ruskin
, William Holman Hunt
, Fanny Kemble
... |
Friends, Associates | Anna Brownell Jameson | ABJ
met Fanny Kemble
in 1828 and a friendship developed. Of this meeting Kemble later wrote: And so began a close and friendly intimacy, which lasted for many years, between myself and this very accomplished... |
Friends, Associates | Anna Brownell Jameson | Besides her time in the USA with Fanny Kemble
, Catherine Sedgwick
, and William Channing
, ABJ
made the acquaintance of Frederick Marryat
, whose advice on publishing matters she appreciated. Thomas, Clara. Love and Work Enough: The Life of Anna Jameson. University of Toronto Press. 117-25 |
Friends, Associates | Adelaide Procter | AP
's parents entertained a circle of well-known literary personages, including Leigh Hunt
, William Hazlitt
, Thomas Moore
, Wordsworth
, Tennyson
, Longfellow
, and Henry James
. Intimates of the household included... |
Friends, Associates | Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre | BBBD
's circle of friends at this period of her life, many of them entertained by herself and her husband at the Hoo but many whose relationship with her went back to long before her... |
Friends, Associates | Henry James | HJ
's circle of acquaintance in the world of letters and the theatre was very wide. As well as men of letters such as Edmund Gosse
, it included a great many women writers, among... |
Friends, Associates | Catharine Maria Sedgwick | Closest to CMS
were her siblings and their spouses, several of whom were also published authors. The Sedgwick family and Fanny Kemble
were apparently the inner circle of the literary scene in the Berkshires,... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Emily Faithfull | The novel brings together the fashionable upper-class society which EF
had experienced in her youth, with the question of women's employment which was the burning issue of her working life. She acknowledges the work of... |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Sewell | Her autobiography has received the most recent critical attention of her writings. Critic Valerie Sanders
compares it with other autobiographies (by Harriet Martineau
, Fanny Kemble
and Margaret Oliphant
), and notes ES
's conflicted... |
Literary responses | Charlotte Brontë | Harriet Martineau
, finding the work attributed to herself even by members of her own family, felt that the unknown author must know not only my books but myself very well. . . . With... |
Literary responses | Georgiana Fullerton | Henry Fothergill Chorley
, reviewing the novel for the Athenæum, found Grantley Manorhaunted by the intertextual spectre of Jane Austen
's Emma; he also drew parallels with Frances Burney
's Cecilia... |
Literary responses | Isabel Hill | IH
's brother later wrote that The First of May would have received more favourable reviews had it been given a different slot in the benefit. He also wished to see it performed on nights... |
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