Author: Fanny KemblePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Georgia
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839
Author: Fanny KemblePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Georgia
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Fanny Kemble's Journals, Edited and with an Introduction by Catherine Clinton
Author: Fanny KemblePublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674039475
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
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.
Fanny Kemble's Civil Wars
Author: Catherine ClintonPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684844141
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
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.
Further Records, 1848-1883
Author: Fanny KembleFanny Kemble's Journal
Author: Frances Anne KemblePublisher: Bandanna Books
ISBN: 9780942208894
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
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.
Records of a Girlhood
Author: Fanny KembleLetters ... to Fanny Kemble 1871-1883
Author: Edward FitzGeraldRecollections of a Southern Daughter
Author: Cornelia Jones PondPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820320441
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
The first unabridged publication of the memoirs of Cornelia Jones Pond, a privileged child of a slaveholding family in Georgia, follws her life from her birth into the antebellum world of 1834, through the apocalyptic Civil War, and beyond. UP.
Fanny & Adelaide
Author: Ann BlaineyPublisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
A tale of two extraodinarily gifted sisters and their encounters with nineteenth-century society.
Ten Years on a Georgia Plantation Since the War
Author: Frances Butler LeighPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385338123
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.