| #4635780 in Books | 2000-09-11 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | .83 x6.29 x9.27l,.1 | File type: PDF | 240 pages||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| A Fascinating Insight into Slavery|By B. P. Walker|Fanny Kemble provides us with a unique and courageous account of the 'peculiar institution' that was thrust upon her by her marriage to Pierce Butler, the wealthy scion of a Southern plantation owner. Already a celebrated actress when she came to America, Fanny was well-educated and accustomed to earning her own living w|From Publishers Weekly|Upon the death of the celebrated British actress Fanny Kemble (1809-1893), her confidant and admirer Henry James said she had written some of the best autobiography of her day. But that autobiographical writing runs to thousands of pages,
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 o...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Fanny Kemble's Journals | Fanny Kemble. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.
