- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Fanny Kemble
- Date of Original:
- 1809/1893
- Subject:
- Actors--Georgia--Saint Simons Island
Women--Georgia--Saint Simons Island
Divorced women--Georgia--Saint Simons Island
Butler family--Georgia--Saint Simons Island
Women authors, English
Kemble, Fanny, 1809-1893 - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Glynn County, Saint Simons Island, 31.15051, -81.36954
- Medium:
- portraits
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- British actress Fanny Kemble's infamous entanglement with Georgia was immortalized in her book, Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839 (1863).
This illustration of Fanny Kemble. She wears a white off-the-shoulder dress with voluminous sleeves, and her hair is swept up. An English actress, Kemble married Georgia planter Pierce Mease Butler and was upset to learn of the family's slave operations. She eventually published an account of her impressions of slavery, after divorcing Butler and losing custody of their two children. - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/fanny-kemble-1809-1893/m-1609/
- Rights Holder:
- Courtesy of the Georgia Historical Society
Georgia Historical Society - Additional Rights Information:
- Please contact holding institution for information regarding use and copyright status.
- Original Collection:
- http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/fanny-kemble-1809-1893
Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia - Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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