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"Her searing intellect and indomitable personality made people love her or hate her. No one could ignore her." -Ann Blainey Fanny and Adelaide |
"She really cared only for things higher and finer and fuller and happier than the shabby compromises of life." -Henry James |
Brittany Wilharm Fanny Kemble:What She Did, What She Left Behind Senior Individual Website |
Images from National Portrait Gallery, London |
"Fanny Kemble is probably the most famous person of the 19th century that no one has ever heard of." -The Boston Globe |
"The nearer one gets to her face and to her mind, the more beautiful they both are." -Washington Irving |
Fanny Kemble wanted to do everything in the world that could be done. She succeeded at becoming a legendary actress in England, an author who wrote over fifteen publications, and an abolitionist who used her influence as an English actress to publish a powerful anti-slavery book that swayed England in their decision not to support the Confederacy. |