Autograph letters signed from Jane Porter, London, to [Frances Anne] Kemble [manuscript], [1837]-ca. 1841.

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Autograph letters signed from Jane Porter, London, to [Frances Anne] Kemble [manuscript], [1837]-ca. 1841.

Refers to the greatness of the Kemble family.

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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....

Porter, Jane, 1776-1850

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