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Fanny Kemble : A Performed Life by Deirdre David, Deirdre David is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Fanny Kemble : A Performed Life about?
<p>A <i>ForeWord</i> magazine Book of the Year for 2007</p> <p>Charismatic, highly intelligent, and splendidly talented, Fanny Kemble (1809-93) 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, in her own words, irresistible as a "woman who has sat at dinner alongside Byron . . . and who calls Tennyson, Alfred."</p> <p>Touring in America with her father in the early 1830s, Kemble impulsively wed the wealthy and charming Philadelphia bachelor Pierce Butler, beginning a tumultuous marriage that ended in a sensational divorce and custody battle fourteen years later. At the time of their marriage, Kemble had not yet visited the vast Georgia rice and cotton plantations to which Butler was heir. In the winter of 1838, they visited Butler's southern holdings, and a horrified Kemble wrote what would later be published on both sides of the Atlantic as <i>Journal of a Residence
Who reads Fanny Kemble : A Performed Life?
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Deirdre David, Deirdre David
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780812240238
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Memoir, Literary Criticism, Sports