Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-39.
Frances Anne Fanny Kemble
Verlag: Harper & Brothers, New York, 1863
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Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-39. By Frances Anne Fanny Kemble and printed in New York City by Harper & Brothers. 1863, 1st American edition, 337 pp plus 10 pp publisher s catalogue, 7.75 x 5.25 , 8vo, hardcover black cloth. In good condition, with minor rubbing and wear to exterior of boards and spine. Minor cracking and wear to hinges at front and rear. Text block remains tight and bound well. Small contemporary inscription at front. General age-related toning to pages, along with periodic foxing and wear. Please see photographs and ask any questions prior to purchasing. A scarce 1st American edition, having first been published in Canada. Fanny Kemble (1809-1893) was a British actress and abolitionist who married Pierce Mease Butler (1810-1867) an heir to an extensive amount of slaves and property on the Georgia coast. Despite Kemble s repeated objections, she and her daughters spent the winter of 1838-39 with her husband in Georgia, and she secretly recorded the horrific conditions that the slaves were kept in. After divorcing her husband, Kemble returned to Britain and ultimately published her account in 1863, which promoted a wave of public outcry and helped keep Britain from neutral during the war, denying the Confederacy any major international support. COLU1863JMNG-0224-aj1070. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers COLU1863JMNG-0224-aj1070
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Titel: Journal of a Residence on a Georgian ...
Verlag: Harper & Brothers, New York
Erscheinungsdatum: 1863
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Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation, 1838-39
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University of Georgia Press, 1984
ISBN 10: 0820307076
ISBN 13: 9780820307077
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Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-39.
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Frances Anne Kemble (1809ÊÐ 1893) was an actress, writer, and abolitionist. She was a successful Shakespearean actress before marrying the heir to multiple lucrative plantations (whom she would divorce in 1848). Kemble and her husband moved to Georgia to live on one of the plantations, where Kemble was appalled by the treatment of the enslaved people who worked there. She wrote the present work during the year she lived on the plantation and circulated it informally in abolitionist circles at the time, but protests from her abusive husband prevented her from publishing the work until the height of the Civil War. Her intent was to combat the general sympathy of the British aristocracy with the South, and the work garnered respect in abolitionist and feminist circles in both the United States and Britain Ñ shortly after the official publication of the present work, for example, Emily Faithfull published excerpts from the text in tract form, as compiled by Isa Craig. In the Oxford DNB, Robert Bernard Martin calls Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation Òa small masterpiece of generous outrage, arguing from the amply and sympathetically documented details of what she had seen, to generalized indignation that such treatment could be tacitly encouraged by part of a civilized nation.Ó 337, 10 [publisherÕs ads]. PublisherÕs light brown cloth titled in gilt. Spine sunned. Spot of soiling to front board. Contemporary ink gift inscription to front pastedown. Minor occasional foxing. A very good copy of this important anti-slavery memoir. First American edition. A London edition was published in the same year. OCLC records no physical copies of the present edition and seven copies of the London (four in North America). Kemble returned to England after leaving the plantation. Following in the footsteps of her father Charles Kemble and her aunt Sarah Siddons, she began a career as a Shakespearean reader. For the next fifteen years, she had great commercial and artistic success as she toured England and the United States. She eventually divorced her husband and, in her later years, wrote Record of a GirlhoodÊ(1878) andÊRecords of Later LifeÊ(1882), two of her most important works. Howes K69. CBEL 627. Feminist Companion to Literature in English (p. 604). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 17030
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A very good copy of a surprisingly scarce account of life in mid-nineteenth-century Georgia. Frances Kemble's (1809-1893) family owned a theatre and her mother and father were actors in their own right. Their fortunes wavered and with the thearte on the verge of collapse in 1829, Frances was encouraged to act. Her performances were so winning that the theatre's foreclosure was delayed. She continued to act for some years, though disliked the work and as soon as she was able, left to concentrate on writing. Before she did so, she and her father embarked on a tour of the United States in 1832. In 1835 she published a two-volume edition of her diary which was critical of American manners and offended many as a result. She remained in American and married Pierce Butler, a Philadelphian who owned plantations in Georgia and North Carolina. They spent the winter in 1838-39 in Georgia which was Kemble's first exposure to slavery. She maintained her diary throughout and, despite adamant opposition from her husband, published it some 25 years later during the heart of the Civil War. ODNB describes it thus: "It is a small masterpiece of generous outrage, arguing from the amply and sympathetically documented details of what she had seen, to generalized indignation that such treatment could be tacitly encouraged by part of a civilized nation. Although it was deliberately not published in the American south, copies soon found their way there and scarcely increased admiration for the meddling of an outsider who expressed herself on what was regarded as an indigenous issue." Sabin, 37329. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 190887
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