Frances Anne Kemble as Beatrice, oil on canvas painting by Thomas Sully, 1833. Fanny Kemble (1809-1893) was a 19th-century British theatre actress, popular writer, and abolitionist whose published works include plays, poetry, eleven volumes of memoirs, travel writing, and works about the theatre.

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