Built from letters a friend returned to her after forty years, this memoir tells of Fanny Kemble’s girlhood in the most famous acting family in England. She writes of her father Charles and aunt Sarah Siddons, schooling in France, the Covent Garden crisis that pushed her onto the stage as Juliet in 1829, sudden fame, and the friends and celebrities of literary London.
A vivid, candid picture of the late-Georgian theatre and society by one of the great letter-writers of the century. Download the free EPUB.