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Journal of A Residence On A Georgian Plantation 1838-1839

By: Frances Anna Kemble

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Journal of A Residence On A Georgian Plantation 1838-1839

By: Frances Anna Kemble

Reproduction of the original: Journal of A Residence On A Georgian Plantation 1838-1839 by Frances Anna Kemble

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3752360739

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9783752360738

Records of Later Life (Dodo Press)

By: Frances Anne Kemble

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By: Frances Anne Kemble

Frances Anne Kemble (Fanny Kemble) (1809- 1893), the actress and author, was actor Charles Kemble's eldest daughter. She was born in London, and educated chiefly in France. She first appeared on the stage on October 26, 1829 as Juliet at Covent Garden. She published the first volume of her memoirs, Journal in 1835, and in 1863, another, Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation (dealing with life on the Georgia plantation), as well as a volume of plays, including translations from Alexandre Dumas, pere and Friedrich Schiller. These were followed by Records of a Girlhood (1878), Records of Later Life (1882), Notes on Some of Shakespeare's Plays (1882), Far Away and Long Ago (1889), and Further Records (1891). Her various volumes of reminiscences contain much valuable material illuminating the social and dramatic history of the period.

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1409992306

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9781409992301

Records of a Girlhood

By: Frances Anna Kemble

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3752363886

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Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839

By: Frances Anne Kemble

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Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839

By: Frances Anne Kemble

Fanny Kemble was one of the leading lights of the English theater in the nineteenth century. During a triumphant tour of America, she met and married a wealthy Philadelphian, Pierce Butler, part of whose fortune derived from his family’s vast cotton and rice plantation on the Sea Islands of Georgia. After their marriage, she spent several months (December 1838 to April 1839) living on the plantation. Profoundly shocked by what she saw, she recorded her observations of plantation life in a series of journal entries written as letters to a friend. But she never sent the letters, and it was not until the Civil War was on and Fanny was divorced from her husband and living in England, were they published. She is a reporter par excellence and records in vivid detail not just her own reactions, but the day-to-day operations of the estate as a business enterprise, the lives of the several “classes” of Negro slaves and their white masters, and the plantation’s landscape of swamps and woods, canals and rivers, stately houses and decrepit hovels. Her account is filled with drama: duels, deaths, jealousies, and episodes of humor and tenderness which lighten the gloom but also accentuate the sadness of a world of toil and misery.

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0307829677

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Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation

By: Frances Anne Kemble

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Kemble, a British actress and authoress, was introduced to American slavery with her marriage to Pierce Butler, grandson of one of the largest slaveholders in Georgia. When Butler came into his inheritance, he and his new wife moved to their plantation, where Kemble quickly became appalled at the cruelty of the peculiar institution.In her most popular book, Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation (1863), she chronicles her observations and arguments against slavery and the inhuman treatment of blacks in America. Her journal became a popular work of abolitionist writing, and she donated some of the money from its publication to the cause of ending slavery.Students of history will be intrigued by this firsthand account of life on a plantation in the decades before the American Civil War.British actress and writer FRANCES ANNE KEMBLE (1809-1893), a member of the Kemble theatrical family, was an outspoken abolitionist and later in life became an inspiration to author Henry James. Her most popular books are Records of a Girlhood (1878) and Records of Later Life (1882).

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Cosimo, Inc.

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1602068054

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9781602068056

Notes Upon some of Shakespeare's Plays

By: Frances Anne Kemble

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Notes Upon some of Shakespeare's Plays

By: Frances Anne Kemble

Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

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3385413850

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Mistresses and Slaves

Plantation Women in South Carolina, 1830-80

By: Marli Frances Weiner

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Mistresses and Slaves

Plantation Women in South Carolina, 1830-80

By: Marli Frances Weiner

Marli Weiner challenges much of the received wisdom on the domestic realm of the nineteenth-century southern plantation--a world in which white mistresses and female slaves labored together to provide food, clothing, and medicines to the larger plantation community. Although divided by race, black and white women were joined by common female experiences and expectations of behavior. Because work and gender affected them as much as race, mistresses and female slaves interacted with one another very differently from the ways they interacted with men. Supported by the women's own words, Weiner offers fresh interpretations of the ideology of domesticity that influenced women's race relations before the Civil War, the gradual manner in which they changed during the war, and the harsher behaviors that resulted during Reconstruction. A volume in the series Women in American History, edited by Anne Firor Scott, Nancy A. Hewitt, and Stephanie Shaw

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University of Illinois Press

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0252066235

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9780252066238

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Journal of A Residence On A Georgian Plantation 1838-1839

Journal of A Residence On A Georgian Plantation 1838-1839

Records of Later Life (Dodo Press)

Records of Later Life (Dodo Press)

Records of a Girlhood

Records of a Girlhood

Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839

Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839

Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation

Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation

Notes Upon some of Shakespeare's Plays

Notes Upon some of Shakespeare's Plays

Mistresses and Slaves

Mistresses and Slaves

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