Arkansas Historical Quarterly, October 1st, 2001
Fanny Kemble's Civil Wars. By Catherine Clinton. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000. Pp. 303. Preface, illustrations, epilogue, notes, bibliography, acknowledgments, index. $26.00.)
Fascinated by Fanny Kemble for nearly all her adult life, historian Catherine Clinton has at last written the story of this remarkable English actress-turned-abolitionist. As the title indicates, Kemble experienced war on multiple fronts. Not only did she become famous for her outspoken opposition to slavery, she was also at war with her husband and his family, with notions of gender, and even with her own chil...
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