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Fanny Kemble's Journals

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Description for Fanny Kemble's Journals Paperback. A selection of the journals and letters of 19th century writer, Fanny Kemble. This collection provides an insight into the best-selling author's life and work, tracing her intellectual development - particularly her views on women and slavery, of which she was a passionate abolitionist. Series: The John Harvard Library. Num Pages: 240 pages, 1. BIC Classification: 3JH; APB; BGA; BJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 359.

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 novel, Kemble published six works of memoir, eleven volumes in all, covering her life, which began in the first decade of the nineteenth century and ended in the last. Her autobiographical writings are compelling evidence of Kemble’s wit and talent, and they also offer ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Series
The John Harvard Library
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674004405
SKU
V9780674004405
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About Fanny Kemble
Catherine Clinton is Weissman Visiting Chair of History, Baruch College, and author of the biography Fanny Kemble’s Civil Wars.

Reviews for Fanny Kemble's Journals
The fascination of a modern reader, I think, is partially rooted in the way Kemble braids a modernist sensibility (freedom, women's rights) with conventional prejudices (class, ethnicity). Like Henry James, I find Kemble's journals absorbing, and also like him, I presume, I find her beguiling.
James L. Roark, Emory University I enthusiastically recommend Fanny Kemble's Journals. Fanny Kemble has ... Read more

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