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...Fanny Kemble's Civil Wars. By Catherine Clinton...index. $26.00.) Fascinated by Fanny Kemble for nearly all her adult life, historian...offering insight into the character of Fanny Kemble, the power of patriarchy in the nineteenth......

......speaking and dramatic presentations of Fanny Kemble by Diane Cypkin appears in the 1996...pp. 44-53). Cypkin's paper, "Fanny Kemble: Shakespearean orator or, A Gracious...men, (perhaps because of that?) Fanny Kemble as a girl had not planned acting as......

......or even collective interest in the realm of employment. Margaret Oliphant, reviewing the memoirs of Anna Jameson and Fanny Kemble, turned an 1879 Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine article into a manifesto for independent women who eschewed political feminism......

......not only in the war itself but caught up as well by its causes, results, and larger meanings. "Sister against Sister: Fanny Kemble's Divided Daughters" may be the most interesting of the three. It introduces readers to Sarah and Fan Butler, sisters......

......worthy of mention in his history of American journalism. A notice in the paper that letters had been left at its office for Fanny Kemble and Olive Logan further suggest that the paper's readership included prominent members of New York's theatrical profession......

......from 9-12 every morning while Edward was at school, & thanks to the time & the hospitality of the Library, my book on Fanny Kemble has gone ahead pretty well. There is a lot of material available here for it that I couldn't get even at the Brit. Mus......

......foreign and domestic. British and European observers, such as Alexander de Tocqueville, Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, Fanny Kemble, Charles Dickens, and others have retained much of their relevance as historians. They provide enduring and piercing insights......

......continues in his next chapter on the limits of American domesticity and freedom for women, positioning the elite plantation wife Fanny Kemble in contrast to the escaped slave Harriet Jacobs. And he includes a chapter on Frederick Law Olmsted-seemingly obligatory......

......sympathetic British works, specifically the travel narratives of Fanny Trollope's Domestic Manners of the Americans, Fanny Kemble's Journals, Charles Dickens in his American Notes for General Circulation, Robert Louis Stevenson in Across the Plains......

......World reform, while Europe reverted to post-revolutionary reaction. During these decades, Alexis de Toc-queville, Fanny Kemble, and Frances Trollope penned classic American pot-traits, and New World writers and painters toured Europe, envying......

...Fanny Kemble's Civil Wars. By Catherine Clinton...index. $26.00.) Fascinated by Fanny Kemble for nearly all her adult life, historian...offering insight into the character of Fanny Kemble, the power of patriarchy in the nineteenth......

......speaking and dramatic presentations of Fanny Kemble by Diane Cypkin appears in the 1996...pp. 44-53). Cypkin's paper, "Fanny Kemble: Shakespearean orator or, A Gracious...men, (perhaps because of that?) Fanny Kemble as a girl had not planned acting as......