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Fanny Kemble was born on November 27, 1809, in London, England, the eldest daughter of the actor Charles Kemble and his Viennese-born wife, the former Marie Therese De Camp.
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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.
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Fanny Kemble was born on November 27, 1809, in London, England, the eldest daughter of the actor Charles Kemble and his Viennese-born wife, the former Marie Therese De Camp.
In 1821, Kemble departed to boarding school in Paris to study art and music as befitted the child of, at the time, the most celebrated artistic family in England. In addition to literature and society, it was at Mrs. Lamb’s Academy in the Rue d’Angoulême, Champs Elysées, that Fanny received her first real personal exposure to the stage performing staged readings for students’ parents during her time at school. As an adolescent, Kemble spent time studying literature and poetry, in particular the work of Lord Byron.
In 1827, Kemble wrote her first five-act play, Francis the First. It was met with critical acclaim from multiple quarters.
In order to save her father from bankruptcy, Fanny Kemble made her debut in his company at Covent Garden in London in October 1829, playing Juliet. Her success was instantaneous, and she was able to recoup the family’s and indeed the theatre’s fortunes, at least for a time. She was an even greater success in 1830 in The Hunchback, which Sheridan Knowles wrote for her.
By the time she traveled with her father to their New York opening in 1832, she was an established dramatic star. For two seasons Kemble and the company toured the United States, playing to wildly enthusiastic audiences. But in spite of her success, Kemble hated what she thought of as the artificiality of acting. She was happy to retire in 1834 to become the wife of the heir to a rich Georgia plantation.
Kemble published a record of her 2-year theatrical tour, Journal of a Residence in America (1835). It was an incisive and genuinely good-humored account, but such publications by foreigners were the rage then and thin-skinned critics made her the target of journalistic wrath. Kemble's marriage, in the meantime, was becoming troubled. Her romantic notions about life on a plantation were rudely shocked by the facts. Unable to live with slavery, she withdrew, first visiting England in 1841 and breaking formally with her husband in 1846. For a year she returned to the British stage and in 1847 moved to Italy, where she wrote A Year of Consolation (1848).
Kemble returned to the United States, making a career of giving public readings from Shakespeare. This innovation brought her enthusiastic applause and a more than decent income. In 1863, in a very successful attempt to influence British public opinion against the Confederate states, she published an account of her plantation experience, Journal of a Residence on a Georgia Plantation. She published several later volumes of autobiography and also literary criticism, as well as a novel, Far Away and Long Ago (1889).
Frances Anne Kemble died on January 15, 1893, in London.
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Frances Anne Kemble married Pierce Mease Butler, they had two daughters. In 1848, Pierce Butler sued for divorce. After a year the divorce was granted, with custody of their two daughters going to Butler.