Fanny Kemble : a performed life
Deirdre David (Author)
Fanny Kemble played a highly significant cultural role on both sides of the Atlantic. The life of this actress-turned-writer-turned-polemicist also intersects with a host of nineteenth-century figures
Print Book, English, 2007
University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, Pa., 2007
Biographies
xix, 350 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
9780812240238, 0812240235
123912578
Prologue : before the curtain
The green-room
The gaze of every eye
Reform and romance
Seeing the world
On the brink
The outer bound of civilized creation
A dreary lesson of human suffering
"A woful ruin"
The havoc of a single life
Fanny's master
Mothers and daughters
The unfurling sea
Kemble genealogy