Fanny Kemble: A Performed Life

by Deirdre David

Book Overview

A 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812240235
• ISBN13: 9780812240238
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.4"