An important early friend of FPC
was Harriet St Leger
, a bluestocking who dressed in masculine fashion and lived intimately with her friend Dorothy Wilson
. FPC
and novelist Felicia Skene
were lifelong friends...
Friends, Associates
Frances Power Cobbe
Sometime in the later 1840s or early 1850s FPC
gave a lunch party for her neighbour Harriet St Leger
, and a friend of St Leger's, Fanny Kemble
. Although the lunch went poorly, Kemble...
Friends, Associates
Fanny Kemble
Sixteen-year-old FK
met thirty-year-old Harriet St Leger
, and a life-long friendship and correspondence ensued.
Marshall, Dorothy. Fanny Kemble. Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1977.
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Clinton, Catherine. Fanny Kemble’s Civil Wars. Simon and Schuster, 2000.
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Fanny Kemble
She had early set her sights on becoming an author. She wrote to her correspondent Harriet St Leger
in February 1828 that her writing showed a clever performance for so young a person, but nothing...
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Fanny Kemble
By 1874 FK
was at work on her memoirs each evening, culling material from her diaries and from letters to Harriet St Leger
. The reminiscences appeared from 1875 in magazines like the Atlantic Monthly...
