Beginning in Philadelphia in 1834, soon after she left the stage to marry the American Pierce Butler, Fanny Kemble’s letters to Anna Jameson and other friends follow her through married life in America, visits home, the failing marriage, and her return to work as an actress and Shakespeare reader. Literary London and America crowd the pages.
A vast, candid self-portrait by one of the most vivid letter-writers of the nineteenth century. Download the free EPUB.