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Frances Anne Kemble

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Also known as Fanny Kemble, Frances Anne Butler, Frances Kemble

English actress and writer (1809–1893)

Person · Open Library

Works
8

Top works

  • Records of Later Life Volume 2
  • Records of Later Life Volume 1
  • Poems
  • Records of Later Life; Volume II
  • Poems by Frances Anne Kemble

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Female
Origin
United Kingdom
Active from
1809-11-27
Active to
1893-01-15

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
2
Total plays
8

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Quotes

  • Though the Negroes are fed, clothed, and housed, and though the Irish peasant is starved, naked, and roofless, the bare name of freemen—the lordship over his own person, the power to choose and will—are blessings beyond food, raiment, or shelter; possessing which, the want of every comfort of life is yet more tolerable than their fullest enjoyment without them.
  • As for the exhortation with which Mr. ------ closes his letter, that I will not "go down to my husband's plantation prejudiced against what I am to find there," I know not well how to answer it. Assuredly I am going prejudiced against slavery, for I am an Englishwoman, in whom the absence of such a prejudice would be disgraceful.
  • I want to do everything in the world that can be done.
  • Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.
  • A good many causes tend to make good masters and mistresses quite as rare as good servants.... The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar and ignorant people become possessed of splendid houses, splendidly furnished, do not, of course, give them the feelings and manners of gentle folks, or in any way really raise them above the servants they employ, who are quite aware of this fact, and that the possession of wealth is literally the only superiority their employers have over them.

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Anne
Gender
female
Place of birth
London
Place of death
London
Languages spoken
English language
Native language
English language
Image
Fanny Kemble.jpg
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name in native language
Fanny Kemble
Commons gallery
Fanny Kemble
Commons category
Frances Anne Kemble
date of birth
1809-11-27
date of death
1893-01-15
place of burial
Kensal Green Cemetery
birth name
Frances Anne Kemble
writing language
English language
Sources (2)

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Works in European collections

7 objects attributed to Frances Anne Kemble, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana