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Author : Fanny Kemble
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Georgia
ISBN : OXFORD:N11466672
Author : Catherine Clinton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Actors
ISBN : 9780684844145
A biography of the British stage star turned plantation mistress, whose abolitionist writings made her an unlikely heroine of the Union cause--and whose life intersected in bold and dramatic ways with the most tumultuous of American conflicts, the Civil War. 64 illustrations.
Author : Frances Anne Kemble
Publisher : Bandanna Books
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0942208897
A personal indictment of the institute of slavery in the Southern United States, as witnessed directly by Fanny Kemble, a British actress in 1838 and 1839. Her husband, the heir to the plantations in Georgia, however, forebade her to publish this material on pain of never seeing her daughters again. She complied, until the two daughters had reached the age of 21, and then allowed the journal to be published in 1863, when the Northern troops were already present along the coast near the Altamaha River, where the plantations were located. In a very personal way, she relates her many varied experiences, efforts to make life easier for the slaves despite her husband's stubborn resistance. As an English citizen, she had seen the total end of slavery throughout the British Empire in 1833, just a few years before her journey to Georgia. She ends her account with a stirring defense of Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, which had raised such a storm of controversy in the United States. Like Stowe, Kemble sees all sides of the situation, with her eyes and with her heart.
Author : Fanny Kemble
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674039476
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. Her autobiographical writings are compelling evidence of Kemble's wit and talent, and they also offer a dazzling overview of her transatlantic world. Kemble kept up a running commentary in letters and diaries on the great issues of her day. The selections here provide a narrative thread tracing her intellectual development-especially her views on women and slavery. She is famous for her identification with abolitionism, and many excerpts reveal her passionate views on the subject. The selections show a life full of personal tragedy as well as professional achievements. 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.
Author : Deirdre David
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780812201741
A ForeWord magazine Book of the Year for 2007 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." 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 Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation. An important text for abolitionists, it revealed the inner workings of a plantation and the appalling conditions in which slaves lived. Returning to England after her divorce, she fashioned a new career as a solo performer of Shakespeare's plays and as the author of memoirs, several travel narratives and collections of poems, a short novel, and miscellaneous essays on the theater. For the rest of her life, she would divide her time between the two countries. In the various roles she performed in her life, on stage and off—abolitionist, author, estranged wife—Kemble remained highly theatrical, appropriating and subverting nineteenth-century prescriptions for women's lives, ever rewriting the roles to which she was assigned by society and inheritance. Hers was truly a performed life, and in the first Kemble biography in twenty-five years to examine that life in its entirety, Deirdre David presents it in all its richness and complexity.
Author : Fanny Kemble
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:RSLXB1
Author : Fanny Kemble
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1847
Category : Italy
ISBN : WISC:89098879034
Author : Rebecca Jenkins
Publisher : Simon & Schuster (UK)
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015060621573
A portrait of a 19th-century star and her struggle against the injustice of the times.
Author : Anne C. Bailey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107193055
This book traces the lives of slaves before, during, and after the largest slave auction in US history in 1859.
Author : Fanny Kemble,Frances Butler Leigh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : WISC:89098878168
Author : John David Cox
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780820330860
Traveling South is the first major study of how narratives of travel through the antebellum South helped construct an American national identity during the years between the Revolutionary War and the Civil War. John Cox makes his case on the basis of a broad range of texts that includes slave narratives, domestic literature, and soldiers’ diaries, as well as more traditional forms of travel writing. In the process he extends the boundaries of travel literature both as a genre and as a subject of academic study. The writers of these intranational accounts struggled with the significance of travel through a region that was both America and “other.” In writings by J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur and William Bartram, for example, the narrators create personal identities and express their Americanness through travel that, Cox argues, becomes a defining aspect of the young nation. In the narratives of Frederick Douglass and Solomon Northup, the complex relationship between travel and slavery highlights contemporary debates over the meaning of space and movement. Both Fanny Kemble and Harriet Jacobs explore the intimate linkings of women’s travel and the construction of an ideal domestic space, whereas Frederick Law Olmsted seeks, through his travel writing, to reform the southern economy and expand a New England yeoman ideology throughout the nation. The Civil War diaries of Union soldiers, written during the years that witnessed the largest movement of travelers through the South, echo earlier themes while concluding that the South should not be transformed in order to become sufficiently “American”; rather, it was and should remain a part of the American nation, regardless of perceived differences.
Author : Anne Ludlum
Publisher : Dramatic Publishing
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Slavery
ISBN : 087129852X
Author : Dorothy Marshall
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015005471944
Author : Ann Blainey
Publisher : Ivan R. Dee Publisher
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015051315409
A tale of two extraodinarily gifted sisters and their encounters with nineteenth-century society.
Author : Malcolm Bell, Jr.
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 701 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2004-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820323954
Master of vast rice and cotton plantations in South Carolina and Georgia, delegate to the Constitutional Convention, Major Pierce Butler bequeathed his family and nation a legacy of slavery--an inheritance of immense wealth sown with the seeds of Civil War. In Major Butler's Legacy, Malcolm Bell charts the unfolding of the Butler patrimony, an epic story that reaches from the eve of the Revolution to the first decades of this century and includes in its course such figures as George Washington, Aaron Burr, Fanny Kemble, William Tecumseh Sherman, Henry James, Theodore Roosevelt, and Owen Wister.