Autograph letters signed and initialled from B. Dacre or "Granny" to various people [manuscript], [1829?]-1842.

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Autograph letters signed and initialled from B. Dacre or "Granny" to various people [manuscript], [1829?]-1842.

Correspondents: Charles Kemble and Frances Anne Kemble. Letter, (p.221) gives her criticism of Fanny Kemble's manuscript. (p. 225-27) to Charles Kemble discusses Fanny's first triumph on the stage. (p.237-239) contain notes added by Lady Dacre's daughter, Arabella Sullivan, 1837-1838.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7108641

Folger Shakespeare 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....

Kemble, Charles, 1775-1854

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Dacre, Barbarina, Lady, 1767-1854

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Barbarina Brand, Lady Dacre, English poet and playwright. From the description of Lady Dacre manuscript material : 2 items, ca. 1821 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 173487273 From the guide to the Lady Dacre manuscript material : 2 items, ca. 1821, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.) ...

Sullivan, Arabella Jane, 1797?-1839

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