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In the News (Sun 12 Oct 08)

  
  Illustrating Huck Homepage
In 1929 Kemble wrote that his work on Huck was the first time he had done "Negro drawings"; in fact, however, he was already known for the caricatures of African Americans he drew to accompany "The Thompson Street Poker Club," a regular feature in Life.
One reason Kemble's illustrations are important is that they can help us try to understand how MT's original readers "saw" the African American characters in the novel.
Kemble could only afford to pay one model to pose for all the characters in the novel.
etext.lib.virginia.edu /railton/huckfinn/hucillhp.html   (569 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   (775 words)

  
 Kemble, Gloucestershire, Cotswolds:Kemble Village Information
Kemble village straddles the busy A429 with the older part of the village with a number of 19th century buildings and All Saints parish church on the east side and the modern mixture of private and local authority housing and the railway station and village pub on the west side.
Kemble became an important part of the railway system becoming a major junction on Isambard Kingdom Brunel's railway line from Swindon to the west and the branch lines from Cirencester and Tetbury, and is still important for passengers travelling to or from Cirencester and the surrounding area.
Kemble airfield on the southern edge of the village is a former RAF airfield.
www.thecotswoldgateway.co.uk /kemble.htm   (394 words)

  
 Stephen Kemble Papers
Kemble's journals reveal him to have been unwaveringly devoted to the British cause and suggest the depth of his personal loyalty to Gage, and he acquitted himself well throughout the crisis.
Kemble was incensed at this replacement, which formed an ironic counterpoint to his previous replacement by the senior officer Rawdon, and after some negotiations with Clinton, Kemble resigned to resume his commission as Lieutenant Colonel of the First Battalion of the 60th Regiment.
Kemble's journals from 1773-1788 (except for the missing journals of 1786-87) and General Howe's Order Books for the entire period of his command as commander-in-chief in America were published in the Collection of the New York Historical Society for the Year 1883 and 1884 (2 vols.).
www.clements.umich.edu /Webguides/HK/Kemble.html   (1601 words)

  
 Kemble vs. Butler
The English-born actress (daughter of Charles Kemble and niece of John Philip Kemble and the greatest actress of her age, Sarah Siddons) left the stage to marry Butler, a wealthy Philadelphia gentleman whom she met while she was on an American tour with her father, in 1832.
Kemble published her journals (the American Journal prior to the divorce, the more muckraking Journal of a Residence on a Georgia Plantation afterwards), and they are still in print and regularly assigned in university American history courses.
For once Kemble becomes an abolitionist (and, with her discoveries about her legal status and that of her children, a feminist to boot) the contest is over: our own enlightened 20th-century values make it impossible for us to disagree with Kemble, or to agree with Butler.
www.english.upenn.edu /~cmazer/Kemble.html   (565 words)

  
 Edward C. Kemble
Kemble readily became involved with local politics, and in April 1848 he was elected clerk of the town council.
Kemble had done his best to put down the rising tide of “gold fever,” as he called it, but eventually the rumor became obvious fact, and even Kemble himself left to try his luck at the mines.
Kemble sold The Alta in January 1855, and by September he was back in New York to help organize and serve as secretary for the Committee on Pacific Coast Emigration.
www.cnpa.com /CalPress/hall/kemble.htm   (749 words)

  
 Fanny Kemble
Kemble always ran or hiked ahead of the group, rode the fastest horse and climbed to the highest point.
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 Summary
Frances Anne Kemble was born into a theatrical family: she was the niece of John Philip Kemble, the actor-manager of Drury Lane, and the actress Mrs.
Kemble's generosity to her servants caused even the good-natured Sarah to wonder whether her mother was being exploited in her declining years.
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.
www.bookrags.com /Fanny_Kemble   (2309 words)

  
 Penn Kemble, 64, scholar, Democratic political activist - The Boston Globe
Penn Kemble, a political activist who considered himself a ''muscular Democrat" and who kept himself in intellectual-fighting trim by engaging in policy tilts with adversaries on both the left and the right, died Sunday of brain cancer at his home in Washington.
Kemble's political and intellectual journey traversed a path from democratic socialist to social democrat.
Kemble served as executive director of the group from 1972 to 1976, when he joined the New York senatorial campaign of Daniel Patrick Moynihan.
www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2005/10/20/penn_kemble_64_scholar_democratic_political_activist?mode=PF   (674 words)

  
 Fanny Kemble
As a resolute abolitionist, Fanny Kemble was unwise to marry a slave-owner.
Born in Lon­don in 1809 into the Kemble clan, which dominated the theatre with talent and numbers, she showed early signs of an independence and energy that despite her height — she was under five foot — would often label her “masculine”.
The Kembles saw themselves as artists rather than actors, and Fanny was educated genteelly in Paris, her first aspirations being for literature rather than the theatre.
www.arlindo-correia.com /200705.html   (2582 words)

  
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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.
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.lycos.com /info/fanny-kemble--miscellaneous.html   (575 words)

  
 Fanny Kemble
Kemble notes a particular group of men that would arrive at all of her performances hours early to have the privilege of front row seats.
For Kemble, marriage was something she was unsure of, as she doubted herself to be fit as a wife.
Kemble’s optimistic attempts at slavery reform were seen by the public as foolish, as most of the community sided with Butler.
www.pabook.libraries.psu.edu /LitMap/bios/Kemble__Fanny.html   (1552 words)

  
 Comic creator: E. W. Kemble
Kemble was an American cartoonist and illustrator born in Sacramento, California.
Kemble returned to New York with the intention to become an artist, and by 1880, his first cartoons were published in Harper's Bazaar.
Kemble was a staff cartoonist for Collier's Weekly (1903-1907) and Harper's Weekly (1907-1912), before he began drawing for Leslie's Weekly and Judge in the late 1910s.
lambiek.net /artists/k/kemble_ew.htm   (192 words)

  
 Charles Kemble
At this time Bliss Kemble's attractive Shakespearian characters were Juliet, Portia, Constance, and Queen Katherine, supplemented by Bianca in "Fazio," Julia in "The Hunchback," Belvidere in "Venice Preserved," and Juliana in " The Honeymoon." In 1832 she came with her father to this country, and played for about two years in the principal cities.
Kemble's renderings of the masculine roles of Bear and Macbeth were particularly admired.
Kemble was pre-eminent, displaying both scholarship and intellectual mastery, and combining tenderness with power.
www.famousamericans.net /charleskemble   (1188 words)

  
 Comic creator: E. W. Kemble
Kemble was an American cartoonist and illustrator born in Sacramento, California.
Kemble returned to New York with the intention to become an artist, and by 1880, his first cartoons were published in Harper's Bazaar.
Kemble was a staff cartoonist for Collier's Weekly (1903-1907) and Harper's Weekly (1907-1912), before he began drawing for Leslie's Weekly and Judge in the late 1910s.
www.lambiek.net /artists/k/kemble_ew.htm   (192 words)

  
 Enslavement - The True Story of Fanny Kemble
Fanny Kemble was born in London in 1809.
Her father, Charles Kemble, was soon to take over from his father, John Kemble, the role of managing director of the Covent Theater.
Kemble spent 1845 restoring her soul in Italy, where she wrote a heartfelt memoir, "A Year of Consolation." She then returned to England and resumed her acting career in "The Honeymoon" at the Theater Royal in 1847.
www.friendsofjane.com /fannykemble/aboutfanny.htm   (631 words)

  
 Penn Kemble; advocate of democracy; 64 | The San Diego Union-Tribune
Kemble's eventful, mostly behind-the-scenes political journey began with socialism, the civil rights movement and opposition to the Vietnam War before it came to center on a fervent anti-Communism that addressed challenges from Central America to Poland.
Richard Penn Kemble was born Jan. 21, 1941, in Worcester, Mass., and grew up in Lancaster, Pa. In a 2004 interview with the Intelligencer Journal of Lancaster, he said the anti-Americanism he had seen in Europe on a childhood trip had shocked him.
Kemble was a leader of a group of socialists opposed to the McGovern candidacy.
www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20051028/news_1m28kemble.html   (766 words)

  
 Flightline UK - Kemble Air Day 2005 = REVIEW
Kemble Air Day is one of the major highlights of the airshow calendar having gained an enviable reputation for putting on some truly extraordinary air displays and always trying to bring something new to the air display world whether it be massed classic jet formations or the Red Bull Air Race.
Although the aircraft arrived at Kemble, it could not display during the show and was forced to reside in the static park.
Kemble try very hard to make this a pleasing event allowing crowds great access to the flying display aircraft as well as the static which did mean the site layout had changed a little.
www.airshows.org.uk /2005/airshows/kemble/review.html   (1214 words)

  
 Fanny Kemble
Kemble described with amusement how these ingenious men took to smearing themselves with molasses and barging up to the box office to buy fistfuls of box seats, driving off the more respectable, and decently dressed, customers.
Kemble was especially impressed with Boston, where she played in the spring of 1833.
The homesick actress was reminded of her beloved England and impressed that the people were so "intellectual" and had been so "abundantly good natured and kind to me." A friendship with the Sedgwick family of Lenox, Massachusetts, led to her long love affair with the Berkshires and introduced her to radical abolitionism.
www.harvardmagazine.com /on-line/0900130.html   (764 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Ven. John Kemble
at Widemarsh Common, Hereford, 22 August, 1679; son of John Kemble, formerly of Kemble, Wiltshire, afterwards of Llangarren, and of Urchinfield (now part of the parish of Hardwicke), and Anne, daughter of John Morgan, of The Waen, Skenfrith, Monmouthshire.
His uncle, George Kemble, of Pembridge Castle, Welsh Newton, was the father of Captain Richard Kemble, who saved Charles II at the battle of Worcester.
Ordained priest at Douai College, 23 February, 1625, he was sent on the mission 4 June, and in his old age lived with his nephew at Pembridge Castle.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/08616a.htm   (269 words)

  
 Kemble Inn bed and breakfast - Lenox, Massachusetts. Lenox Bed and Breakfast Inns.
Kemble Inn bed and breakfast - Lenox, Massachusetts.
Take left on route 7A (Kemble St.) to the top of the hill.
Take a left onto Walker St. Go approximately 1 mile to Trinity Church (the gray stone church on left.) Take a left at the corner onto Kemble St. The inn is on your right.
www.bedandbreakfast.com /massachusetts-lenox-kemble-inn.html   (444 words)

  
 Fanny Kemble and Pierce Butler
Fanny Kemble was an abolitionist; her husband Pierce Butler was a slaveholder.
Frances Anne (Fanny) Kemble was born on November 27, 1809 in London, England.
Again the family was divided: Fanny Kemble and their daughter Sarah were pro-North; Pierce Butler and their daughter Frances were pro-South.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/aia/part4/4p1569.html   (1147 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   (190 words)

  
 Flightline UK 2004 - Kemble Air Day 2004 = 20th June = REVIEW
Kemble is the former home to the Red Arrows, and in their 40th Anniversary Year, Kemble was one of six venues to officially celebrate this special occasion with it's home based collection of classic jet types.
Kemble also hosted a Red Arrows reunion over the show weekend where many memories of their time at the Cotswolds airfield were rekindled.
Kemble pre show publicity was highly impressive, the official website and press releases boasted a formidable line up over the months leading up to the event.
www.ukairshows.info /2004/airshows/kemble/review.html   (1642 words)

  
 Frances Anne Kemble Biography | Encyclopedia of World 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.
The daughter of actor Charles Kemble and his actress wife Maria Theresa De Camp, she could claim full membership in the aristocracy of the British theater.
Kemble published a record of her 2-year theatrical tour, Journal of a Residence in America (1835).
www.bookrags.com /biography/frances-anne-kemble   (391 words)

  
 John Mitchell Kemble
Kemble, a student of Jacob Grimm ("Grimm's Law" of phonological language change), worked in Germany and in England over three decades to produce important early studies of Anglo-Saxon literature and legal charters, as well as Celtic artifacts surviving from the pre-Anglo-Saxon English culture.
Kemble's three autograph notebooks, in particular, contain important clues to how Kemble thought, preserving the early organization of his ideas about topics which eventually led to publication of the history of Anglo-Saxon and its grammar, and his posthumously published studies of Celtic artifacts.
Reproductions of and commentaries on Kemble's drawings of Celtic artifacts housed in German, Dutch, and other European museums, as well as others found during his residence in England.
faculty.goucher.edu /eng240/john_mitchell_kemble_notebooks.htm   (412 words)

  
 Kemble & Mountaineers
Kemble's illustrations were an important element in the initial popularity of the book.
Kemble's character sketches are often cartoonish depictions of character, in the mode of the American "genre" painting.
Another Kemble sketch of mountaineers is labeled "Native Types." Here is Allen's generalized description of people he meets in the mountains.
www.etsu.edu /writing/apptravel/kemble.htm   (870 words)

  
 The Last Word: Steve Kemble
Kemble's event career, which started with the organization of his high school prom, led to the founding of Dallas-based Steve Kemble Event Design 14 years ago.
Among these was the 1,000-guest, fl-tie dinner Kemble produced for former president George Bush — a gala he calls “one of the most memorable events I have done.” At the evening's end, the Bush family left before the rest of the guests for security reasons.
Kemble, who once employed seven staff members, says his need to concentrate on events rather than human resources eventually convinced him to go it alone.
specialevents.com /mag/meetings_last_word_steve/index.html   (558 words)

  
 Philadelphia Reflections: Fanny Kemble   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Beyond that, she caused a major new understanding of Shakespeare, and was a major force in the abolition of slavery.
Fanny Kemble was more than the toast of the town, she was the most glamorous woman in the English speaking world.
At the outset of her book, Fanny Kemble describes what it was like to travel on American railroads in 1838.
www.philadelphia-reflections.com /reflections.php?content=topics_php/fanny_kemble.php   (1052 words)

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