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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.
Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Caroline Norton | |
| 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,... |
| Friends, Associates | Maria Callcott | Her friends at this period of her life included the diarist and letter-writer Caroline Fox
(with whom her relationship was very close), This is the Hon. Caroline Fox (1767-1845), not to be confused with the... |
| Friends, Associates | Edward FitzGerald | Despite a somewhat reclusive life both before and after his separation from his wife within a year of their marriage, he was well connected with the Victorian literary scene, and expressed strong opinions on women... |
| Friends, Associates | Eliza Lynn Linton | While in Paris, she met Madame von Mohl
(wife of Orientalist Julius von Mohl
, Chair of Persian at the Collège de France
); William Rathbone Greg
; Fanny Kemble
; Elizabeth Barrett
and Robert Browning |
| Friends, Associates | Louisa Catherine Shore | During her stay in Fulham, LCS
made some literary contacts, including Fanny Kemble
and Sara Coleridge
. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
| Friends, Associates | Frances Power Cobbe | Sometime in the later 1840s or early 1850s FPC
gave a lunch party for her neighbour Harriet St Leger
, and a friend of St Leger's, Fanny Kemble
. Although the lunch went poorly, Kemble... |
| 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 | 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... |
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