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.
Black and white photograph of a painting of Fanny Kemble by Sir Thomas Lawrence, She is seated in a chair draped with a fur-trimmed blanket, with a column visible in the background. She is wearing a white gown, low on her shoulders, with wasp waist, puffed sleeves, and ruffled trim. Her dark, shining hair, smooth and middle-parted, is pulled back in a bun.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Literary responses Catherine Hubback
She is discussed as one of a group of British women who travelled or settled in the USA (along with Fanny Kemble , Frances Trollope , Harriet Martineau , Isabella Bird , and the diarist...
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 Caroline Norton
Fanny Kemble , whose stage career was nearly two years old, found the play an effective tear-jerker, although it abounded in atrocious situations.
qtd. in
Chedzoy, Alan. A Scandalous Woman: The Story of Caroline Norton. Allison and Busby, 1995.
78
The Times saw merit in it of a distinguished kind.
Atkinson, Diane. The Criminal Conversation of Mrs Norton. Preface Publishing, 2012.
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Occupation Barbarina Brand Baroness Dacre
BBBD was a woman whose talent and energy found many other outlets besides writing. She performed as a fortune-teller at a social gathering.
Grey, Barbarina Charlotte, Lady. A Family Chronicle. Editor Lyster, Gertrude, John Murray, 1908.
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Fanny Kemble in Recollections of a Girlhood remembered her as a...
Occupation Adelaide Kemble
AK undertook a singing tour of France and Germany with family and friends, including Fanny Kemble , Mary Anne Thackeray and Henry Chorley . Liszt joined them in Germany.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. From Friend to Friend. Editor Ritchie, Emily, John Murray, 1919.
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Occupation Frances Arabella Rowden
In Paris she founded another school, a Protestant (Anglican) competitor to the convents which generally had the educating of upper- and middle-class French girls. This school, whose French staff were Protestants, opened in the rue...
Occupation Maria Theresa Kemble
MTK returned to the stage to play Lady Capulet to her daughter's Juliet in Fanny Kemble 's acting debut.
Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1973–1993.
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Occupation Eleanor Farjeon
In 1939, EF became a member of the executive committee of the PEN Club . She remained on the committee for ten years, during which its chief work was helping with the escape and establishment...
Performance of text Claire Luckham
CL 's historical play The Dramatic Attitudes of Miss Fanny Kemble opened at the Nuffield Theatre in Southampton.
Luckham, Claire. Plays. Oberon, 1999.
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Author summary Claire Luckham
Claire Luckham's career as a playwright was launched in 1976, when the feminist theatre group Monstrous Regiment selected Scum (a play on which she and her husband collaborated) to open their first season. Her plays...
Publishing Georgiana Chatterton
She had signed the agreement with her publisher, Richard Bentley , on 4 December 1861.
“The Ferrers of Baddesley Clinton”. Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.
She says that she set out here rather to give the value of the words than their scholastic or critically...
Reception Anna Brownell Jameson
An early review from the Westminster Review mentions its dislike of mixing a guide-book and a romance
qtd. in
Johnston, Judith. Anna Jameson: Victorian, Feminist, Woman of Letters. Scolar Press, 1997.
101
before going on to censure the author for her inadmissable lie about the authenticity of the diary....
Reception Frances Arabella Rowden
Rowden's poem was reviewed by the Critical (3rd series 20 (May 1810): 112). Mary Russell Mitford read the first canto with high appreciation and admiration that increase[d] with every perusal. She expected it to rank...
Residence Frances Power Cobbe
A number of deaths among her close friends and relatives, together with her gruelling anti-Vivisection work, made London an increasingly stressful home for FPC . For several years she and Lloyd led a nomadic lifestyle...
Textual Features Julia Pardoe
JP 's aspirations for this biography were to revise the official accounts of Francis the First's life (which relied originally on reports bound by censorship) with materials derived from confidential records and correspondence.
Pardoe, Julia. The Court and Reign of Francis the First, King of France. R. Bentley and Son, 1887, 3 vols.
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