Kemble, Frances Anne (Fanny Kemble)
Kemble, Frances Anne (Fanny Kemble)( 1809–95),member of a famous English stage family, had a successful career as an actress in London, and came to America (1832), acting for two years before retiring to marry Pierce Butler, owner of a Georgia plantation. Her Journal of Frances Anne Butler (2 vols., 1835) is a record of her theatrical tour, freely criticizing many American customs. Her Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation, written during the winter of 1838–39, was not published until 1863, when it was meant to influence British opinion against the South, whose slavery she detested. In 1846 she left her husband, returned to the London stage, wrote A Year of Consolation (1847), and a year later became involved in a notorious divorce suit. Afterward, in the U.S., she gave public readings of Shakespeare and wrote plays, volumes of poetry, criticism, and autobiography, and Far Away and Long Ago (1889), a...
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