Fanny Kemble

Frances Anne Kemble ( born November 27, 1809 in London, † 1893) was a British actress, writer and abolitionist.

Frances Anne Kemble, daughter of Charles Kemble and Marie Thérèse de Camp (1774-1838) and sister of John Mitchell, was formed by her father for the stage, debuted in 1829 as Juliet in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet with applause and visited in 1832 with her parents America, where they 1834 Pierce Mease Butler ( 1810-1867 ) of Philadelphia married.

Later she separated from her husband to enter anew the stage in England and America, and settled in 1856 at Lenox, Massachusetts, where they visited Europe twice.

Since 1873 she has been resident in the vicinity of Philadelphia, recently she lived in London. She has published, among others:

• Francis the First, a drama ( London 1832 New York 1833)
• Journal of a residence in the United States ( London 1834 ),
• The Star of Seville, a drama ( London / New York 1837),
• Poems (London / Philadelphia 1844, Boston 1859)
• A year of consolation, a book of Italian travel ( London 1847),
• Journal of a residence on a Georgian plantation in 1838-1839 (London 1863)
• Poems (London, 1865 and 1883),
• Listens (London 1864), in which, among other things, a translation of Schiller's Mary Stuart is included,
• Notes upon some of Shakespeare 's plays (1882).
• Far Away and Long Ago (1889 )

Your memoirs were published under the titles: Records of a girlhood (New York 1879) and records of a later life ( New York, 1882. ). - Her younger sister, Adelaide (1815-1879), was formed for the opera singer, made art tours on the continent, celebrated since 1841 to London in the lead roles of the great operas triumphs, but withdrew after her marriage with Frederick Sartoris from the stage. She wrote, among other things: A week in a French country -house (London 1867) and Medusa, and other tales (1868 ).