Autograph poems signed by Fanny Kemble [manuscript], 1864?

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Autograph poems signed by Fanny Kemble [manuscript], 1864?

Two manuscript poems, "Expostulation" and "Sonnet," on recto and verso of a single leaf. Both signed Frances Anne Kemble. Endorsed in pencil "In the handwritting of Mrs. Kemble - 2 sonnets" and "Mrs Fair 1864." With typescript transcription of both poems.

1 leaf ; 32 x 21 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7623970

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....