Fanny Kemble (1809–1893)
Autor de Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839
Sobre El Autor
Créditos de la imagen: From "Records of a Girlhood" by Frances Anne Kemble
Obras de Fanny Kemble
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Conocimiento común
- Otros nombres
- Kemble, Frances Anne (birth)
Butler, F. A. - Fecha de nacimiento
- 1809-11-27
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1893-01-15
- Lugar de sepultura
- Kensal Green Cemetery, London, England, UK
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- UK
- Lugar de nacimiento
- London, England, UK
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- London, England, UK
- Ocupaciones
- activist
writer
playwright
memoirist
public speaker - Relaciones
- Hatton, Ann Julia (aunt)
Kemble, Adelaide (sibling)
Leigh, Frances Butler (child)
Wister, Sarah Butler (child)
Wister, Owen (grandchild) - Biografía breve
- Frances Anne "Fanny" Kemble was born into the First Family of the British theatre. Her parents were the actors Charles Kemble and his wife Maria Theresa Kemble, and Sarah Siddons was her aunt. Fanny was educated in France and made her own stage debut in 1829 at Covent Garden in London, where she was a smash hit in the role of Shakespeare's Juliet. Fanny became an icon of the British stage and achieved international stardom on her 1832 tour of the East Coast of the USA. In 1834, she married Pierce Mease Butler, an American planter and politician, and retired from her theatrical career. She then became a best-selling author when her "Journal by Frances Anne Butler" appeared in 1835. The book scandalized American readers with her frank opinions about her adopted country. In 1847, Fanny separated from her husband and returned to the stage to make a living. She had great success as a Shakespearean reader rather than acting in plays, and toured the country. She and her husband divorced in 1849; Butler kept custody of their two daughters and Fanny was not allowed to see them until they each reached age 21. Fanny was an outspoken abolitionist. She wrote "Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839," an account of life on her husband's plantations in the Sea Islands, with passionate commentary against slavery. It could not be published until after the start of the Civil War, for fear of Butler's reaction and alienating her daughters. Fanny continued to tour until her death in 1893 in London.
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- #65,730
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- 4.0
- Reseñas
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- ISBNs
- 51
How on earth could the slave owners and overseers not realize that in listening to the complaints of the slaves, this woman was actually doing the owners themselves a favor -rather than increasing discontent, listening gave an outlet to those slaves who confided in her, thus actually decreasing their discontent by making them feel heard, and actually adding years to the lives of the masters and overseers. Had the slaves not felt listened to, they might have slit the throats of all the white men on the plantation, despite (or because of) the repressive conditions. How on earth could they not realize that their very deafness and blindness to their cruelty increased the risk of revolt? Discontent penned up boils over, as the Great Depression showed (which was why we got Social Security, Medica* and Welfare -that, and the fact that FDR did not want the Japanese using segregation and Bread Lines as bad P.R. against US...).
Courage, and hope against hope.
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