AK
was named after a maternal aunt, Adelaide De Camp
, whom her nieces and nephews knew and loved as Aunt Dall.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. From Friend to Friend. Editor Ritchie, Emily, John Murray, 1919.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Fanny Kemble
FK
was brought up by her spinster aunt Adelaide de Camp
. Aunt Dall, as she was called by the Kemble children, accompanied Fanny on her first American tour. Her ill health prompted FK
to...
Family and Intimate relationships
Eliza Kirkham Mathews
This date is given in the International Genealogical Index. Anne Mathews in her memoirs gives a date of November that year, oddly since that puts the wedding only a month before the birth of...
Instructor
Adelaide Kemble
AK
's aunt Adelaide De Camp
directed her early education.
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, 1990.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. From Friend to Friend. Editor Ritchie, Emily, John Murray, 1919.
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She wrote later, I think myself fortunate that I was never sent to school.
qtd. in
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. From Friend to Friend. Editor Ritchie, Emily, John Murray, 1919.
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Publishing
Fanny Kemble
FK
's beloved Aunt Dall, who accompanied her to America in the early 1830s, was involved in a coach accident that eventually left her paralysed. This prompted FK
to sell her American journals to a...
Residence
Fanny Kemble
FK
gave an emotional farewell performance at Covent Garden before embarking on an American tour with her father and Aunt Dall
.
Clinton, Catherine. Fanny Kemble’s Civil Wars. Simon and Schuster, 2000.