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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Frances Anne (Fanny) Kemble (1809–1893)

Kemble, Frances Anne (Mrs. Pierce Butler). A famous English actress, daughter of Charles Kemble and niece of Mrs. Siddons; born in London, Nov. 27, 1809; died there, Jan. 15, 1893. Among other works, she published her ‘Journal’ (1834); ‘Journal of a Residence on a Georgia Plantation’ (1863); ‘Recollections of a Girlhood’ (3 vols., 1878); ‘Recollections of Later Life’ (3 vols., 1882); and in the Atlantic Monthly, reminiscences of her theatrical career (1876–77).