Correspondence, 1847-1890.

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Correspondence, 1847-1890.

Contains personal correspondence between Kemble and members of the Parkman and Dwight families in America. Also includes Philadelphia court records of the divorce case between Kemble and her husband, and a photograph of Kemble.

1 box (.5 linear ft.)

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SNAC Resource ID: 6805008

Houghton Library

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Kemble, Fanny, 1809-1893

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Frances Anne "Fanny" Kemble (27 November 1809 – 15 January 1893) was a British actress from a theatre family in the early and mid-19th century. She was a well-known and popular writer and abolitionist, whose published works included plays, poetry, eleven volumes of memoirs, travel writing and works about the theatre. In 1834, Kemble married a wealthy Philadelphian, Pierce Mease Butler, grandson of U.S. Senator Pierce Butler, whom she had met on an American acting tour with her father in 1832....

Parkman family.

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Dwight family.

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