Frances Anne (Fanny) Kemble (1809–1834)
Frances Anne (Fanny) Butler (1835–1848)
Frances Anne (Fanny) Kemble (1849–1893)
1809–93
Actress and author. Toured America from 1831. Married American plantation owner Pierce Butler in 1834; divorced, 1848. Acted occasionally when visiting England and became a successful monologist. An abolitionist; published her account of living on a Georgia slave plantation in 1838–9 when she finally retired from performing in 1863.
Sources
DAB
ODNB
.Bibliography
DAB: Dictionary of American biography. Under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies. 20 vols., index, and 10 supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons; Simon & Schuster Macmillan. London: Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford. 1928–95.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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