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Poems (Paperback)
Fanny Kemble
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R390
Discovery Miles 3 900
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Poems (Paperback)
Fanny Kemble
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R390
Discovery Miles 3 900
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Plays (Hardcover)
Friedrich Schiller, Fanny Kemble
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R1,115
Discovery Miles 11 150
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Poems
Fanny Kemble
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R778
Discovery Miles 7 780
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Frances Anne Kemble (1809-1893) was a famous London-born actress
who toured the United States with her father for several years
before marrying the Philadelphia landowner and heir Pierce Butler.
Her two-volume journal, first published in 1835 under her married
name, shocked the American public for its ungenerous and often
biting criticisms of the young country. Detailing Kemble's voyage
to and tour of the United States, the journal contains first hand
accounts of the cities of the eastern seaboard in the early
nineteenth-century and the manners and customs of its people. Noted
for its candid observations and strong personal style, Kemble's
journal remains one of her most lasting literary works.
Frances Anne Kemble (1809-93) was a famous London-born actress who
toured the United States with her father for several years before
marrying the Philadelphia landowner and heir Pierce Butler. Her
two-volume journal, first published in 1835 under her married name,
shocked the American public for its ungenerous and often biting
criticisms of the young country. Detailing Kemble's voyage to and
tour of the United States, the journal contains first hand accounts
of the cities of the eastern seaboard in the early
nineteenth-century and the manners and customs of its people. Noted
for its candid observations and strong personal style, Kemble's
journal remains one of her most lasting literary works.
A few years after her marriage to a wealthy American, the English
stage-actress Frances Anne Kemble (1809 1893) moved with her
husband to his residence in Georgia, where he had inherited two
plantations. There she kept a journal of her shocking observations
of the practice of slavery. Written over a period of less than four
months, Kemble's journal records her day-to-day encounters with her
husband's slaves, and attempts to expose the moral injustice of
slavery. The journal circulated privately among her friends, but
was not published until 1863, long after Kemble's divorce in 1849.
Her book is credited with influencing Britain's position of
neutrality during the American Civil War despite the cotton
industry's lobbying in favour of the South. Kemble's journal
remains a lasting and important critique of slavery, and a valuable
document about the nineteenth-century American south.
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Plays (Paperback)
Friedrich Schiller, Fanny Kemble
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R884
Discovery Miles 8 840
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Poems
Fanny Kemble
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R469
Discovery Miles 4 690
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