LEADER 04564nam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910787540103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8122-0174-4 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812201741 035 $a(CKB)2670000000418167 035 $a(OCoLC)859162287 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10748339 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000980932 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11578589 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000980932 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10969542 035 $a(PQKB)10645632 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse26099 035 $a(DE-B1597)449028 035 $a(OCoLC)1013936378 035 $a(OCoLC)1029835475 035 $a(OCoLC)979954152 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812201741 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442029 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10748339 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL682364 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442029 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000418167 100 $a20070425d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFanny Kemble$b[electronic resource] $ea performed life /$fDeirdre David 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (371 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-322-51082-2 311 $a0-8122-4023-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [325]-335) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tPrologue. Before the Curtain --$t1. The Green-Room --$t2. The Gaze of Every Eye --$t3. Reform and Romance --$t4. Seeing the World --$t5. On the Brink --$t6. The Outer Bound of Civilized Creation --$t7. A Dreary Lesson of Human Suffering --$t8. "A Woful Ruin" --$t9. The Havoc of a Single Life --$t10. Fanny's Master --$t11. Mothers and Daughters --$t12. The Unfurling Sea --$tKemble Genealogy --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aA 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 1830's, 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. 606 $aActors$zGreat Britain$vBiography 610 $aAutobiography. 610 $aBiography. 610 $aCultural Studies. 610 $aLiterature. 615 0$aActors 676 $a792.02/8092 676 $aB 700 $aDavid$b Deirdre$f1934-$0165504 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787540103321 996 $aFanny Kemble$93809384 997 $aUNINA