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	Frances Anne Kemble - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Frances Anne Kemble (Fanny Kemble) (1809 - 1893), the actress and author, was Charles Kemble's elder daughter; she was born in London, and educated chiefly in France.
		Fanny was shocked by the conditions of slaves and their treatment.
		Fanny defied her husband's authority and continued to help the slaves to the point, Pierce had her striped in front of the slaves and severely whipped.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fanny_Kemble (503 words)

	New Georgia Encyclopedia: Fanny Kemble (1809-1893)
		The British actress and writer Fanny Kemble's infamous entanglement with Georgia began in the 1830s when she married Pierce Mease Butler, who in 1836 inherited his grandfather's legacy, including hundreds of slaves and several plantations on the Sea Islands.
		As the wife of a planter, Kemble had unimpeded access to plantation affairs and was especially poignant and pointed when she allowed the voices of slave women, so seldom heard during this era, to shine through in the pages of her journal.
		Kemble's battles with Butler over harsh treatment of slaves contributed to the couple's permanent impasse, which resulted in marital separation in 1845 and a divorce in 1849.
	www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?id=h-792 (771 words)

	Fanny Kemble and Pierce Butler
		Fanny Kemble was an abolitionist; her husband Pierce Butler was a slaveholder.
		Fanny believed that Pierce would continue in his devotion, and Pierce believed that Fanny would curb her independent nature and allow herself to be ruled by him.
		Fanny would be allowed to spend two months every summer with her children, and Pierce would pay her $1500 a year in alimony.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/aia/part4/4p1569.html (1147 words)

	Enslavement - The True Story of Fanny Kemble
		Fanny Kemble was born in London in 1809.
		Fanny soon became the darling of society in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C, where she was a visitor at the White House and befriended such figures as Charles Surrmer and the writer Trelawny.
		Fanny ceased to be an actress and became one of the most unlikely, and important, abolitionists in the country.
	www.friendsofjane.com /fannykemble/aboutfanny.htm (631 words)

	Fanny Kemble
		Fanny was reluctant to go on the trip but enjoyed drama and adventure, and she quickly earned fame.
		Kemble had published her travel journals in 1835 over the objections of her husband, who deleted all the proper names before he would allow the book to go to press.
		At first, Fanny Kemble refrained from publishing her text, though the manuscript was repeatedly revised and circulated among her friends (Katharine Anne Sedgwick, for one, was an enthusiastic reader).
	www.univie.ac.at /Anglistik/easyrider/data/kemble.htm (651 words)

	Fanny Kemble
		In 1832, Fanny Kemble went on a theatrical tour of the United States from Boston to Washington with her father and her aunt Miss Adelaide De Camp.
		A 1922 newspaper clipping about Fanny states, "Nearly all local traditions allude to her haughty demeanor and the scorn with which she regarded the people of her region." A famous story about Fanny’s isolation from her neighbors involves the Reverend George Bringhurst, the rector of the Episcopal House of Prayer in Branchtown.
		Fanny assumed that she was granted permission to open the letter since Pierce himself had given it to her, but Pierce seized the opportunity to say that she had disobeyed him.
	www.lasalle.edu /commun/history/articles/fanny.htm (1987 words)

	Enslavement - The True Story of Fanny Kemble
		Kemble's extraordinary exploits inspired acclaim in the 19th century and two dozen books, but her legacy had dimmed at the approach of the new millennium.
		Kemble's courage led her to risk her well-being to improve the slaves' envirorunent and even help some of them escape from her husband's plantation.
		"Fanny was a firebrand, very strong-willed, and she refused to become the 'property' of a man, which was the accepted status of a wife in that era.
	www.friendsofjane.com /fannykemble/prodinfo.htm (1001 words)

	Fanny Kemble (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Fanny Kemble (1809-1893) became famous on the British and American stage for her performances in "Romeo and Juliet", and "The Hunchback." At the peak of her fame in 1834, she married a plantation owner, Pierce Butler.
		After retiring from the stage and moving to the plantation, Kemble was appalled at how slaves were treated on plantations.
		Scott effectively dramatizes Fanny Kemble's story, showing her influence on her contemporaries and on the antislavery movement in America.
	www.wmol.com /whalive/kemble.htm (150 words)

	Kliatt: Clinton, Catherine. Fanny Kemble's civil war - Book Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Fanny Kemble (1809-1893) was a leading member of a renowned British acting family that included her aunt, the famous Sarah Siddons.
		Kemble is not as well known today as she was in the 19th century, but Clinton introduces the modern reader to an actress who won over audiences not only in Europe but also in the United States.
		To provide income, Fanny published her journals about her Georgia experiences with slavery in 1863 and created her own "civil war," because Sarah, although of abolitionist sympathies, was angered by the exposure of the family's life and Frances defended her father and the concept of slavery.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0PBX/is_3_36/ai_107124438 (453 words)

	Fanny Kemble to Pierce Butler
		Fanny did not know that she too was soon to become a "star-cross'd lover".
		Fanny, who was pregnant within a few months, turned her attention to her written impressions of America and began to prepare them for publication.
		In 1841, because Fanny's father was very ill, the Butlers and their daughters left the United States for London, where Pierce soon proved himself a spendthrift.
	www.geocities.com /Paris/Parc/9893/fanny2.html (1069 words)

	Sample text for Library of Congress control number 00030097
		Kemble apologized in the newspaper for his transgression and absolved Miss de Camp of any blame, and that seemed to be the end of the story.
		Fanny and her siblings never knew when they might come home to find their mother collapsed in bed, or on the other hand rearranging the furniture with plans to remodel a home for which they could barely afford the upkeep.
		Fanny spent a blissful year with this favorite cousin, but perhaps it was the attentions of young men that persuaded her to linger.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/samples/simon051/00030097.html (4997 words)

	Fanny Kemble's Civil Wars: Current Amazon U.S.A. One-Edition Data (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Kemble's own writing is distinguished by a feisty verve, and she has long awaited a biographer who can match her.
		Fanny KembleDEnglish-born actress, author, and abolitionistDcommanded center stage in the American drama over slavery and in her much-publicized personal civil wars of marriage to one of America's wealthiest slaveholders, bitter divorce, and publication of her private letters and her antislavery journal describing life on a Georgia plantation.
		Kemble belonged to a family of prominent British Shakespearean actors, and her earliest fame came as the title heroine in Romeo and Julie and in performances in other classics in London beginning in 1829, when she was only 19.
	www.worldwar1.co.uk /books-plain/0195148150.html (2516 words)

	Open Collections Program: Women Working: Fanny Kemble
		An actress and celebrity divorcee, Fanny Kemble is also well-known for her published journals and for her public stand against slavery.
		The daughter of the actors Charles and Marie Kemble, Frances Anne Kemble was born in London in 1809.
		In 1832, Fanny Kemble left London on a theatrical tour of the United States from Boston to Washington, DC with her father and her aunt, Adelaide De Camp.
	ocp.hul.harvard.edu /ww/people_kemble.html (348 words)

	Fanny Kemble's Journals:0674003055:Kemble, Fanny; Clinton, Catherine; Clinton, Catherine:eCampus.com
		Born into the first family of the British stage, Fanny Kemble was one of the most famous woman writers of the English-speaking world, a best-selling author on both sides of the Atlantic.
		In addition to her essays, poetry, plays, and a novel, Kemble published six works of memoir, eleven volumes in all, covering her life, which began in the first decade of the nineteenth century and ended in the last.
		Kemble kept up a running commentary in letters and diaries on the great issues of her day.
	www.ecampus.com /bk_detail.asp?isbn=0674003055 (182 words)

	Berkshires Week
		Kemble, an untrained actress, had acting in her genes -- having been born into the Siddons family, which included the famous actress Sarah Siddons.
		Kemble returned to her native England and quickly made a name for herself as a master interpreter of Shakespearean plays.
		In "Fanny Kemble" the staircase and its landing are transformed into a striking part of the play’s narrative.
	www.berkshiresweek.com /071703?id=article04 (1363 words)

	The Flick Filosopher \| Enslavement: The True Story of Fanny Kemble (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The journal was written by Fanny Kemble, who was not only a renowned writer but one of the most famous actresses of her day, and her journal almost certainly cut years off the Civil War.
		Fanny Kemble (Jane Seymour) is actually a woman ahead of her time.
		Fanny, of course, is constrained by her gender and by her husband, limited in what she may say and do.
	www.flickfilosopher.com /flickfilos/archive/002q/enslavement.shtml (1010 words)

	Author's Corner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Fanny Kemble greatly appreciated the social and financial rewards of life upon the stage, but her ambition was to be a "lioness" of the literary sort.
		Fanny Kemble characterizes herself as traveling to Georgia as a typical Englishwoman: opposed to slavery "on principle," but expecting to see a crude but benign system of live and labor, with willing workers and compassionate masters.
		Kemble arrived in the Georgia Sea Islands as a naive chronicler of American racial folkways; she departed as a passionate advocate for the elimination of slavery.
	www.dramaticpublishing.com /AuthorsCornerDet.cfm?titlelink=9589&artnumber=1 (1710 words)

	Writing Grants (Especially for the Humanities)
		Fanny Kemble, who perfects the public reading, is the heir to a family tradition.
		Fanny's aunt, the famous actress Sarah Siddons, also did public readings, and after her retirement conducted private performances for friends within the intimacy of her own drawing room.
		To date, I have analyzed closely Kemble's cuts and marginal comments for Othello and several other plays and have made two conference presentations analyzing the relationship of Kemble's interpretation of Othello to prevailing critical opinion of the time and to her own discussion of racial issues in Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation.
	virtual.park.uga.edu /cdesmet/artgrant.htm (1790 words)

	Fanny Kemble, Civil War, History, Historical, Brunswick, Glynn County, Georgia
		Pierce Butler, better known as Frances Anne (Fanny) Kemble, the most famous Shakespearean actress of her day, who had married the owner of two large plantations on the islands off the Georgia coast.
		By Fanny's time the textile mills of England were turning to short-staple cotton from the mainland, and hard times were on the horizon, though no one in 1838 knew how hard they were to be.
		While Fanny was thus walking the heights of fame all through the last half of the century, the Georgia plantations she had loved and hated went into a long decline.
	glynncounty.com /History_and_Lore/Fanny_Kemble (3443 words)

	Siddons, Sarah Kemble on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The most distinguished of the famous Kemble family, she had early theatrical experience in her father's traveling company, and at 18 she married William Siddons, an actor.
		Her success was instant and indisputable, and her fame grew in such roles as Queen Katharine, Desdemona, and as Volumnia to the Coriolanus of John Philip Kemble, her brother, with whom she often starred.
		She dreaded the boards Paula Byrne on a biography of Fanny Kemble, reluctant stage star, opponent of slavery and friend of Henry James
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/S/Siddons.asp (471 words)

	Frances Anne Kemble Biography / Biography of Frances Anne Kemble Biography Biography
		Born into a famous English theatrical family, Frances Anne Kemble (1809-1893), known as Fanny Kemble, went to America in 1832, where she was celebrated both for her dramatic talent and her cultural observations.
		Kemble published a record of her 2-year theatrical tour, Journal of a Residence in America (1835).
		Fanny and her sister Adelaide are the subjects of Fanny and Adelaide: The Lives of the Remarkable Kemble Sisters by Ann Blainey (2001).
	www.bookrags.com /biography-frances-anne-kemble (543 words)

	Passionate Women Bring "Fanny Kemble" to Life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Kemble fell in love with her doting admirer, and was attracted to the idea of leaving the grueling theatre and her shaky finances for a life of luxury and wealth, and so agreed to marry him.
		Fanny would not be tamed, and Pierce didn't treat her as adoringly as he had during their courtship.
		Fanny Kemble lived a long life, writing her first novel at the age of 81 on a typewriter given to her by her grandson Owen Wister, who later wrote "The Virginian." Kemble's novel may be the first work of fiction written entirely on a typewriter.
	www.backstage.com /backstage/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000622204 (2636 words)

	Sunday Herald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Kemble repertoire was to some degree dominated by Shakespeare (including the now unfashionable Henry VIII and King John) but the company staple was melodrama and the conditions of theatre-going were such – noisy, crowded, over-lit – that only broad-brush emotion and extravagant body language communicated over the footlights.
		Fanny’s awestruck love is reflected in her desperate desire for Charles’s attention, initially as the author of a historical drama Francis I (for which Kemble loyally went out and had a rich costume made) but then as an actress who rivalled his divine sister in public attention.
		Fanny Kemble was both of her times and instinctively, precociously modern; her own creation and utterly a Kemble.
	www.sundayherald.com /print48261 (820 words)

	Fanny Kemble
		Fanny was a great success and this role was followed by several others in her father's Covent Garden Theatre.
		Fanny gave up acting for a while but after their divorce in 1848 she returned to the stage.
		At one time Fanny Kemble was giving a series of Shakespearian readings in New York, and often rendered generous help to benevolent institutions by the use other great talent.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /RAkemble.htm (529 words)

	From Miranda to Prospero: The Works of Fanny Kemble - Questia Online Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Fanny Kemble's life (1809-1893) spanned most of the nineteenth century and most of the controversial roles for Anglo-American middle-class women of the time.
		Kemble's singular life seems always at least double, having been selectively reenacted in the letters and journals she wrote serially in the wake of events and then later (often much later) condensed and annotated for publication (Sanders 110-11).
		Siddons and daughter of Charles Kemble -- Fanny Kemble adapted readily to the part of romantic heroine in the style of Victorian Shakespeare.
	www.questia.com /PM.qst?a=o&d=96481291 (409 words)

	H-Net Review: Carolyn Eastman on Fanny Kemble's Journals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Describing her brief months on her husband's vast plantation, Kemble is at once an outsider, capable of incisive insight into an environment she never comfortably inhabits, and the plantation mistress who is necessarily implicated in a racial hierarchy she despises.
		Frances Anne Kemble was born in 1809 into a family of prominent English actors including, most famously, her aunt and uncle, Sarah Siddons and John Philip Kemble.
		Here, Kemble is no longer a public figure or a member of the literati but a woman stuck between the rock of her husband and the hard place of their slaves, and she has few resources from which to draw.
	www.h-net.msu.edu /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=100191015349674 (1276 words)

	Harvard University Press/Fanny Kemble's Journals
		Catherine Clinton is Weissman Visiting Chair of History, Baruch College, and the author of a new biography of Fanny Kemble.
		Henry James called Fanny Kemble's autobiography "one of the most animated autobiographies in the language." Born into the first family of the British stage, Fanny Kemble was one of the most famous woman writers of the English-speaking world, a best-selling author on both sides of the Atlantic.
		An elegant introduction provides a context for appreciating Kemble's remarkable life and achievements, and the excerpts from her journals allow her, once again, to speak for herself.
	www.hup.harvard.edu /catalog/KEMJOU.html (243 words)

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