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Fanny & Adelaide : the lives of the remarkable Kemble sisters / Ann Blainey.
Van Pelt Library PN2598.K4 B58 2001
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Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) PN2598.K4 B58 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Blainey, Ann, 1935-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kemble, Fanny, 1809-1893.
- Kemble, Fanny.
- Actors--Great Britain--Biography.
- Actors.
- Plantation owners' spouses.
- Great Britain.
- Georgia.
- Plantation owners' spouses--Georgia--Biography.
- Kemble, Adelaide.
- Singers--Great Britain--Biography.
- Singers.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- x, 339 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Fanny and Adelaide
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : I.R. Dee, 2001.
- Summary:
- It would be difficult to find, in European civilization in the last two centuries, two sisters who achieved more success across the arts and professions than Fanny and Adelaide Kemble, the subjects of Ann Blainey's engrossing twin biography. Born in 1809 to a celebrated theatrical family, Fanny was the most famous English-speaking actress of her day before she left the stage to marry the Philadelphia slaveowner Pierce Butler. Her sister Adelaide, five years her junior, ranks among the finest of English-born opera singers. Their complex and fascinating relationship is one of the major themes of this grand biography. ""Colorful adventures of two scions of a 19th-century English theatrical family."" --Kirkus Reviews. ""Blainey paints vivid portraits of two determined, strong-willed women."" --Booklist. Illustrated.
- Contents:
- 1 God Almighty's Nobility 3
- 2 The Little Devil of a Kemble 23
- 3 "Heaven Smiles on You, My Child" 40
- 4 "Everything Is Winter" 55
- 5 A Genteel Slave-owner 72
- 6 An Enchanted Bohemian Castle 92
- 7 The Girl in the Black Cassock Dress 112
- 8 Triumph in Italy 128
- 9 "Like a Boiling Spring" 143
- 10 "Ever Your Own Wife" 152
- 11 A Homegrown Prima Donna 171
- 12 "Submit Your Will to Mine" 190
- 13 Caught in a Trap 203
- 14 Land of Consolation 215
- 15 Thunderclouds 232
- 16 Leighton's Madonna 249
- 17 A Fierce and Furious Conflict 270
- 18 Ghosts 286
- 19 "Like the End of Some Reign" 299.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1566633729
- OCLC:
- 45136618
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