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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Textual Features Margaret Emily Shore
The diary provides a full and vivid account of girlhood in the years leading up to Victoria 's reign, in addition to musings on familial and personal topics. It contains substantial literary criticism, such as...
Textual Production Eleanor Farjeon
EF linked her novel Humming Bird with the journals of Fanny Kemble , since it is titled from a hummingbird musical box modelled on one that Kemble describes.
Farjeon, Annabel. Morning has Broken: A Biography of Eleanor Farjeon. Julia MacRae, 1986.
229, 304
Textual Production Mary Russell Mitford
Mitford was planning this tragedy by March 1827, though she said she had not yet drafted as much as ten lines.
Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers, 1870, 2 vols.
2: 68-70
Charles Kemble expressed interest in it in 1828, but she turned him...
Textual Production Isa Craig
IC compiled and edited for the Ladies' London Emancipation Society a work entitled The Essence of Slavery, extracted from Fanny Kemble 's recent Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Barbarina Brand Baroness Dacre
Another play by BBBD , called Isaure and having as protagonist a refined patrician beauty,
Kemble, Fanny. Records of a Girlhood. Henry Holt, 1879.
383
was intended to be performed at Covent Garden as a benefit piece for Fanny Kemble , but it...
Textual Production Anne Thackeray Ritchie
Much of the letters and reminiscences here concern her friends the sisters Fanny Kemble and Adelaide Kemble, later Sartoris .
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Jane Welsh Carlyle
Nor was she entirely charmed by her husband's lady admirers,
Carlyle, Jane Welsh. Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle. Editors Carlyle, Thomas and James Anthony Froude, Longmans, Green, 1883, 3 vols.
1: 66
though they make perfect fodder for her caricatures. To her close friend John Sterling , Jane writes: You cannot fancy what a way...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
The volume includes literary criticism on works by Richard Watson Dixon and William Butler Yeats . The memoir The Drawing-Room recalls Robert Browning 's visit to MEC 's childhood home. Recollections of Mrs. Fanny Kemble
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Naomi Royde-Smith
NRS says she has often found that my own selection of relevant detail has lighted on facts passed over as insignificant by other writers.
Royde-Smith, Naomi. The Private Life of Mrs. Siddons. V. Gollancz, 1933.
11
She hopes to place her subject in a light, possibly...
Travel Fredrika Bremer
Heading south again, she continued to learn about the institution of slavery and read the writings of abolitionists like Frederick Douglass and Fanny Kemble .
Stendahl, Brita K. The Education of a Self-Made Woman. The Edwin Mellen Press, 1994, https://archive.org/details/educationofselfm0000sten/mode/2up?q=%22geijer%22+%22stina%22+%22boklin%22.
125
 Yet her later account suggests the inadequacy of any...
Travel Anna Brownell Jameson
ABJ returned to the United States via Montreal and Quebec City. In the USA she visited Fanny Kemble in Philadelphia, developed a friendship with Catherine Sedgwick , and was received in Massachusetts by...

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