Vara A. Majette papers, 1924-1965.

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Vara A. Majette papers, 1924-1965.

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The collection consists of biographical information, correspondence, writings, research, and photographs. Majette's only published work (1924) was "White Blood," which dealt with race relations. "Mistress of a Thousand Slaves" is based on the life of Fanny Kemble. Research for the book includes a letter written by Fanny Kemble. "Daughters of Men" is about Indian tribes on the Sea Islands when the Spanish first came to Georgia. "Please God..." closely follows Majette's life story. Her writings also include children's stories and poems, some of which are in a scrapbook she made for her granddaughter in 1929.

1.75 linear feet.

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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....

Majette, Vara A. (Vara Anna), 1875-1974.

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Vara A. Majette (1875-1974) was an author, lawyer and artist. She was born in Gwinnett County, Georgia. Her father, Dr. William E. Swinney (1848-1919), was a physician. She married Edwin Smith Majette in 1895 and they had three children. After years of social work, she decided to study law and became one of the first women lawyers admitted to the Georgia Bar Association. After her husband's death in 1932, she moved to St. Simon's Island, Georgia where she bought a house named "Tillandsia." She b...