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Fanny Kemble's Journals
Fanny Kemble's Journals
Author: Fanny Kemble
Henry James called Fanny Kemble's autobiography "one of the most animated autobiographies in the language." Born into the first family of the British stage, Fanny Kemble was one of the most famous woman writers of the English-speaking world, a best-selling author on both sides of the Atlantic. In addition to her essays, poetry, plays, and a nove...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780674004405
ISBN-10: 067400440X
Publication Date: 9/11/2000
Pages: 240
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Publisher: Harvard University Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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A woman with modernist sensibility for freedom and women's rights, Fanny, was one of the most famous woman writers of her time, a friend of Henry James who praised her autobiographical work. She was passionately against slavery in the South, but brought into it by her plantation owning husband. She left with her 6 children. Her gritty descriptions of her times and miserable slave life will engrave themselves on your mind and expand your picture of the world at that time.


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