Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
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...
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.
131
Clarke, Norma. Ambitious Heights. Routledge.
7
Carlyle, Jane Welsh. Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle. Editors Carlyle, Thomas and James Anthony Froude, Longmans, Green.
1: 67
A woman whom Carlyle himself particularly admired was the wealthy and...
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.
1: 66
though they make perfect fodder for her caricatures. To her close friend John Sterling
, Jane writes: You cannot fancy what a way...
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...
Literary responses
Charlotte Brontë
Harriet Martineau
, finding the work attributed to herself even by members of her own family, felt that the unknown author must know not only my books but myself very well. . . . With...
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.
Barbarina Charlotte, Lady Grey,. A Family Chronicle. Editor Lyster, Gertrude, John Murray.
18
Fanny Kemble
in Recollections of a Girlhood remembered her as a...
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
This late second marriage was apparently very happy. Tim Brand was a lawyer and in politics a strong Whig, who...
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...
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.
383
was intended to be performed at Covent Garden
as a benefit piece for Fanny Kemble
, but it...
Literary responses
Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre
Fanny Kemble
wrote: Her English version of Petrarch's sonnets . . . seem to me as nearly perfect as that species of literature can be.
