Fanny Kemble : : A Performed Life / / Deirdre David.
A ForeWord magazine Book of the Year for 2007Charismatic, 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 m...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (376 p.) :; 35 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Prologue. Before the Curtain
- 1. The Green-Room
- 2. The Gaze of Every Eye
- 3. Reform and Romance
- 4. Seeing the World
- 5. On the Brink
- 6. The Outer Bound of Civilized Creation
- 7. A Dreary Lesson of Human Suffering
- 8. "A Woful Ruin"
- 9. The Havoc of a Single Life
- 10. Fanny's Master
- 11. Mothers and Daughters
- 12. The Unfurling Sea
- Kemble Genealogy
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments