Fanny Kemble: A Performed Life
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A ForeWord magazine Book of the Year for 2007
Charismatic, highly intelligent, and splendidly talented, Fanny Kemble (180993) was a Victorian celebrity, known on both sides of the Atlantic as an actress and member of the famous Kemble theatrical dynasty, as a fierce opponent of slavery despite her marriage to a wealthy slave owner, as a brilliantly successful solo performer of Shakespeare, and as the author of journals about her career and life on her husband's Georgia plantations. She was,...
Charismatic, highly intelligent, and splendidly talented, Fanny Kemble (180993) was a Victorian celebrity, known on both sides of the Atlantic as an actress and member of the famous Kemble theatrical dynasty, as a fierce opponent of slavery despite her marriage to a wealthy slave owner, as a brilliantly successful solo performer of Shakespeare, and as the author of journals about her career and life on her husband's Georgia plantations. She was,...






















