Autograph letters signed from Anne Benson Procter, North Berwick, Aberdeen, Edinburgh and London, to [Frances Anne] Kemble [manuscript], 1879-1887.

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Autograph letters signed from Anne Benson Procter, North Berwick, Aberdeen, Edinburgh and London, to [Frances Anne] Kemble [manuscript], 1879-1887.

Letter on p. 205 written and signed by Anne Procter and her daughter, Edythe. There are many references to contemporary authors, including Robert Browning, Thomas Hardy, Bret Harte, Henry James and William Makepeace Thackeray. In one (p. 175) she comments on Tennyson's simple, honest and straightforward style. In two (p. 161-63) she mentions Adelaide Sartoris' death.

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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....

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