Fanny Kemble
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: The 19th Century
- Categories: Literature, Publishing, Arts, Social Issues, Reform, and Protest
- Subcategories: Authors, Writers, Novelists, Short Story Writers, Drama, Theater, Playwrights, Poetry, Poets, Slavery, Slaves, Acting, Actors
- Curriculum: Women’s History, 19th Century European History, British History
Article abstract: Kemble was one of the finest actors on the British and American stage. Her Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839 is one of the best firsthand accounts of slavery in the United States.
Early Life
Frances Anne Kemble was born on November 27, 1809, into the most famous acting family in Great Britain. Her father, Charles Kemble, had succeeded his brother John as the manager of the Covent Garden theater in London, and two of her aunts were well-known actresses. Her mother, Maria Therese De Camp, was an actress who...
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