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FRANCES See also:ANNE See also:KEMBLE (Fanny Kemble) (1809-1893) , the actress and author, was See also:Charles Kemble's See also:elder daughter; she was See also:born in See also:London on the 27th of See also:November 1809, and educated chiefly in See also:France. She first appeared on the See also:stage on the 25th of See also:October 1829 as Juliet at Covent See also:Garden. Her attractive See also:personality at once made her a See also:great favourite, her popularity enabling her See also:father to recoup his losses as a manager. She played all the See also:principal See also:women's parts, notably Portia, See also:Beatrice and See also:Lady Teazle, but Julia in See also:Sheridan See also:Knowles's The Hunchback, especially written for her, was perhaps her greatest success. In 1832 she went with her father to See also:America, and in 18J4 she married there a See also:Southern planter, See also:Pierce See also:- BUTLER
- BUTLER (or BOTELER), SAMUEL (1612–168o)
- BUTLER (through the O. Fr. bouteillier, from the Late Lat. buticularius, buticula, a bottle)
- BUTLER, ALBAN (1710-1773)
- BUTLER, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1818-1893)
- BUTLER, CHARLES (1750–1832)
- BUTLER, GEORGE (1774-1853)
- BUTLER, JOSEPH (1692-1752)
- BUTLER, NICHOLAS MURRAY (1862– )
- BUTLER, SAMUEL (1774-1839)
- BUTLER, SAMUEL (1835-1902)
- BUTLER, SIR WILLIAM FRANCIS (1838– )
- BUTLER, WILLIAM ARCHER (1814-1848)
Butler. They were divorced in 1849. In 1847 she returned to the stage, from which she had retired on her See also:marriage, and later, following her father's example, appeared with much success as a Shakespearian reader. In 1877 she returned to See also:England, where she lived—using her See also:maiden name—till her See also:death in London on the 15th of See also:January 1893. During this See also:period Fanny Kemble was a prominent and popular figure in the social See also:life of London. Besides her plays, See also:Francis the First, unsuccessfully produced in 1832, The See also:Star of See also:Seville (1837), a See also:volume of Poems (1844), and a See also:book of See also:Italian travel, A See also:Year of See also:Consolation (1847), she published a volume of her See also:Journal in 1835, and in 1863 another (dealing with life on the See also:Georgia See also:plantation), and also a volume of Plays, including See also:translations from See also:Dumas and See also:Schiller. These were followed by Records of a Girlhood (1878), Records of Later Life (1882), Notes on some of See also:Shakespeare's Plays (1882), Far Away and See also:Long Ago (1889), and Further Records (1891). Her various volumes. of reminiscences contain much valuable material for the social and dramatic See also:history of the period.
End of Article: FRANCES ANNE KEMBLE (Fanny Kemble) (1809-1893)
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