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Mid-Nineteenth-Century Poetry
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Francis the first: an historical drama. 1832 (8 edns), micros New York
1968 (from 8th edn), Cambridge MA 1976, and Bethlehem PA
1995 (for Univ of California, Davis); New York and Philadelphia
1832, micro Louisville KY [1965?]; 1833 (10th edn). Acting version,
with title Francis the first: a tragedy in five acts, London, New
York and Philadelphia 1832, 6th Amer edn of this version ‘with
other poetical pieces’ and memoir 1833, micro Cambridge MA
[19 ?].
reviews: Athenaeum 17 Mar 1832; (H. H. Milman) Quart Rev 47,
Mar 1832.
Journal by Frances Anne Butler. 2 vols 1835, micro Ann Arbor MI
1960; 2 vols Philadelphia 1835, micros Chicago 1970, New Haven
CT 1975; rptd New York [1970] as The journal of Frances Anne
Butler, better known as Fanny Kemble, micro New York [19 ?]; 1
vol Brussels 1835 (as Journal of a residence in America). The
journal has also been rptd as Fanny Kemble: journal of a young
actress, ed M. Gough, New York 1990, with complete proper
names added from a copy in the Columbia Univ Lib.
reviews: Southern Literary Messenger 1, 1834–5; Niles’ Weekly
Register 48 1835; Athenaeum 30 May 1835; [E. G. E. Bulwer-
Lytton] Edinburgh Rev 61, July 1835; (J. W. Croker) Quart Rev 54,
July 1835; Fraser’s Mag 12, Sep 1835.
The star of Seville: a drama in five acts. By Mrs Butler (late Miss
Kemble). 1837 (2 edns), New York 1837. Micros New York 1965,
Ann Arbor MI 1978.
review: Athenaeum 15 Apr 1837.
Poems. By Frances Anne Butler (late Fanny Kemble). Philadelphia
1844, London, Edinburgh and Dublin 1844 (contents arranged
differently).
reviews: Athenaeum 3 Aug 1844; (J. G. Lockhart) Quart Rev 75,
Mar 1845.
A year of consolation. By Mrs Butler (late Fanny Kemble). 2 vols in 1
New York 1847, micro Ann Arbor MI [1970?]; 2 vols London 1847,
micro Woodbridge CT 1975; 2 vols in 1 Hartford CT 1851.
reviews: Athenaeum 1 and 8 May 1847; (Abraham Hayward)
Edinburgh Rev 86, July 1847; (Richard Ford) Quart Rev 81 Sep
1847.
Answer of Frances Anne Butler to the libel of Pierce Butler praying a
divorce. n.p. 1848.
Poems. Boston 1859 (mostly new), micro Atlanta GA 1991. London
‘1866’ [1865].
Journal of a residence on a Georgian plantation in 1838–1839. 1863,
New York 1863, micros Louisville KY [1960?], Ann Arbor MI 1967,
Chicago 1970, Woodbridge CT 1975, New York [19 ?],
Washington [19 ?] (Library of Congress). 1863 edn rptd London
and New York 1961 (ed and introd by J. A. Scott) and Athens GA
1984. New York reissue 1864 rptd Chicago 1969 (preface by J.-L.
Brindamour). New edn Savannah GA 1992. Also pbd in Principles
and privilege: two women’s lives on a Georgia plantation, Ann
Arbor MI 1994 (with Journal of Fanny Butler Leigh). Selections,
Claremont CA 1951 (ed J. A. Foster). Play by Anne O’Connell based
on text, video Northbrook IL and Atlanta GA 1981. Extracts on
slavery were rptd in the nineteenth century by emancipation
groups – e.g. by Isa Craig as The essence of slavery, Ladies’
London Emancipation Soc Tract no 2 1863 – and as The views of
Judge Woodward and Bishop Hopkins on negro slavery in the
South, [Philadelphia?] 1863, micros Louisville KY 1962 and
Sanford NC [1980].
For contemporary responses to the Journal, see M. E. Lombard,
Contemporary opinions of Mrs Kemble’s Journal of a residence on a
Georgian plantation, Georgia Historical Soc Quart, Dec 1950.
Record of a girlhood. By Frances Anne Kemble. 3 vols 1878, 1879 (2nd
edn), (3rd edn, rev), 1 vol New York 1879 (2 edns, as Records of a
girlhood; micro New Haven CT 1975), other US edns 1883, 1884.
Rptd in part from Kemble’s Old woman’s gossip, Atlantic
Monthly 36–9 1875–7. Extracts rptd as Fanny Kemble’s ride on
the Liverpool and Manchester railway, [New York 1939] (priv ptd,
limited edn).
reviews: Theatre 1 Dec 1878; (Abraham Hayward) Quart Rev 154,
July 1882.
Records of later life. 3 vols 1882 (2 edns); 1 vol New York 1882, micros
New Haven CT 1976, Washington 1978 (LC); 1883 (2nd edn).
reviews: Atlantic Monthly 50 1882; Littell’s Living Age 154 1882;
Athenaeum 8 July 1882; (George Archdale) Temple Bar 66, Oct
1882.
Notes upon some of Shakespeare’s plays. 1882, micros Ann Arbor MI
[196 ?], Washington [19 ?] (LC), facs New York 1972. Introd pbd
Cornhill Mag 8, Dec 1863 as On the stage, and rptd New York
1926, ed and introd by G. Arliss (Pbns of the Dramatic Museum of
Columbia Univ, 5th ser, Papers on acting III).
Poems. 1883, micro Washington 1985 (LC). Some from 1844 vol,
many from 1859 vol, 25 new poems and 5 trns from Fr.
review: Critic 4 1884.
Adventures of John Timothy Homespun in Switzerland: stolen
from the French of Tartarin de Tarascon. 1889. Play imitating
Daudet’s Tartarin sur les Alpes.
Far away and long ago. 1889, New York 1889 (Leisure Hour ser no
225); micros Ann Arbor MI 1978, Woodbridge CT [197-?].
reviews: Nation 49 1889; Athenaeum 8 June 1889.
Further records 1848–1883: a series of letters forming a sequel to
Record of a girlhood and Records of later life. 2 vols 1890, 2 vols
New York 1891, rptd 1972 (2 vols in 1); micros New Haven CT 1976,
Washington [19 ?] (LC).
review: Atlantic Monthly 67 1891.
Kemble’s letters and extracts from her jnls have appeared in Fanny, the
American Kemble: her journals and unpublished letters, ed with
annotations by Fanny Kemble Wister (her great-granddaughter), Tallahassie
GA 1972, and in The terrific Kemble, ed Eleanor Ransome, Hamilton,
Ontario 1978.
Contributions to periodicals
A mother’s memories. Pittsfield Sun 8 Feb 1849.
Some notes on Shakespeare. Atlantic Monthly 1860.
Lady Macbeth. Macmillan’s Mag 17, Feb 1868. Signed Fanny Kemble.
Salvini’s Othello. Temple Bar 71, July 1884. Signed Fanny Kemble.
The rose lily: a Yankee yarn. Temple Bar 82, Jan 1888.
For Kemble’s contributions to Bentley’s Misc and NMM, see Wellesley vol
5 1989.
Translation
The Christmas tree, and other tales: adapted from the German by
Frances Kemble.‘1856’ [1855].
Imitations
My conscience! Fanny Thimble Cutler’s journal of a residence in
America, whilst performing a profitable theatrical engagement:
beating the nonsensical Fanny Kemble journal all hollow.
Philadelphia 1835.
Fanny Kemble in America: or journal of an actress with remarks on
the state of society in America and England. By an English lady
four years resident in the United States. Boston 1835.
In her biography, Fanny Kemble (Chapel Hill NC 1933), L. S. Driver argues
that both imitations were written by Kemble herself in response to
unfavourable reviews.
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Obit: New York Sun 17 Jan 1893; Pall Mall Gazette 17 and 21 Jan 1893;
Philadelphia Times 17 Jan 1893; New York Times 18 Jan 1893;
London Daily Mail 20 Jan 1893 (by Kemble’s publisher George
Bentley).
Coleman, J. Fanny Kemble. Theatre 33, Mar 1893.
James, Henry. Essays in London and elsewhere. New York 1893.
Lee, H. Frances Anne Kemble. Atlantic Monthly 71 1893.