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
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Cultural formation | Frances Arabella Rowden | FAR
came from the English middle class. She was an Anglican
in religion. Mary Russell Mitford
represents her as a young teacher taking a relaxed attitude to religious ideas in literary contexts (her students were... |
Dedications | Anna Brownell Jameson | ABJ
published in two volumes Characteristics of Women, Moral, Poetical and Historical, later renamed Shakespeare
's Heroines; it was dedicated to Fanny Kemble
. Johnston, Judith. Anna Jameson: Victorian, Feminist, Woman of Letters. Scolar Press, 1997. 237 Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908. |
Education | Elizabeth Taylor | Her first school, where she went at the age of six, was a little private establishment called Leopold House, which gave a grounding in English and maths and team games. Beauman, Nicola. The Other Elizabeth Taylor. Persephone Books, 2009. 12-13 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Adelaide Procter | AP
's mother, born Anne Skepper
, was a clever and observant woman, a frequent and influential hostess to the London literary elite. Frances Kemble
considered her notable for her pungent epigrams and brilliant sallies... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre | Her brother the Rev. James Ogle
performed the ceremony. “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. 10880 (6 December 1819): 3 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Adelaide Kemble | Actor Charles Kemble
, father of Fanny
and AK
, took on the share of his brother John Philip Kemble
in Covent Garden Theatre
. Within a couple of years he took on the major... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Adelaide Kemble | AK
's sister, Fanny
, had dazzling early success as an actress before going on to further fame as a writer, feminist, and activist against slavery in the USA. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Jane Welsh Carlyle | As Thomas Carlyle's reputation grew, so did his popularity with women, including Fanny Kemble
, Geraldine Jewsbury, and Harriet Martineau. Surtees, Virginia. Jane Welsh Carlyle. Michael Russell, 1986. 131 Clarke, Norma. Ambitious Heights. Routledge, 1990. 7 Carlyle, Jane Welsh. Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle. Carlyle, Thomas and James Anthony FroudeEditors , Longmans, Green, 1883. 1: 67 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Maria Theresa Kemble | Fanny Kemble
, MTK
's elder daughter, was born on 27 November 1809. Highfill, Philip H., Kalman A. Burnim, and Edward A. Langhans. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1993. 316 Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ann Hatton | and aunt of the actress and writer Fanny Kemble
. |
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, 1967. 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... |
Timeline
15 September 1830
The Liverpool and Manchester Railway, the first large-scale passenger steam railway, was officially opened; public timetabled service began on 17 September.
1 April 1857
Herman Melville
's last novel, The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade, appeared.
20 March 1863
The executive of the Ladies' London Emancipation Society
first convened at the home of Mentia Taylor
; the Society aimed to enlist British sympathy for the North in the US Civil War.