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Fanny Kemble's Civil Wars

Fanny Kemble's Civil Wars( )
Author: Clinton, Catherine
ISBN:978-0-19-514815-2
Publication Date:Jan 2005
Publisher:Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $35.00
Book Description:

A British stage star turned Georgia plantation mistress, Fanny Kemble is perhaps best remembered as a critic of slavery--and an influential opponent of this institution during the years leading up to the Civil War. By the mid-1830s, American society was firmly in the grip of Kemble's celebrity as an actress--young ladies adopted "Fanny Kemble curls," a tulip was named in her honor, and lecture attendance at Harvard fell so sharply on afternoons of Kemble's matinees that professors...
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