Letters to and from Fanny Kemble [manuscript], 1829-1890.

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Letters to and from Fanny Kemble [manuscript], 1829-1890.

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Also, a few of her papers and some letters to and from other people. Notes at the beginning of W.b. 596-598 state that the letters in these volumes were given by Fanny Kemble to Frances Cobbe. Another note at the end of W.b.596, written by F.B.K., July 1930, refers to several letters from Miss Cobbe to Mrs. Owen Wister, 1893, which allude to Fanny Kemble's letters.

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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....

Wister, Fanny Kemble

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Cobbe, Frances Power, 1822-1904

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English journalist and reformer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to W.A. Knight, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270899208 Frances Power Cobbe, English philanthropist, social worker, and religious author, advocate of women's rights, education for poor and neglected children, and anti-vivisectionist. From the description of Correspondence to France Power Cobbe, 1855-1904. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens...

Wister, Mary Channing, 1869-1913

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