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Records of A Girlhood. Records of Later Life
by KEMBLE, Frances Ann [Fanny]
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- first
- Condition
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1878 / 1882. First Edition. First printing of Girlhood; first U.K. edition of Later Life. Octavo (19cm). Six volumes, uniformly rebound in half brown morocco and marbled paper, top edges gilt; marbled endpapers; Girlhood I: [vi],299,[1]pp; II: [iv],336pp; III: [iv],321,[1]pp; Later Life I: [iv],288pp; II: [iv],295,[1]pp; III: [iv],422pp. "Walz" stamp to flyleaf in each volume. Pencil annotations in vols I-II of Girlhood; ink note about Kemble's death facing t.p. of vol. I. Sound and stable, lightly rubbed at edges, f.f.e.p. neatly detached in vol. I of Later Life, generally clean with slight toning: Very Good.
Fanny Kemble was a popular British-American actress and bestselling memoirist. Her several journals are "rich psychological and cultural documents," with "keen insights into the enormous changes transforming" America (Mainiero American Women Writers II:446). Her best-known work is now the abolitionist Journal of A Residence on a Georgian Plantation, 1838-1839 (1863), which contains her first-hand observations on slavery during her brief marriage to a Southern plantation owner.
Fanny Kemble was a popular British-American actress and bestselling memoirist. Her several journals are "rich psychological and cultural documents," with "keen insights into the enormous changes transforming" America (Mainiero American Women Writers II:446). Her best-known work is now the abolitionist Journal of A Residence on a Georgian Plantation, 1838-1839 (1863), which contains her first-hand observations on slavery during her brief marriage to a Southern plantation owner.
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- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 58958
- Title
- Records of A Girlhood. Records of Later Life
- Author
- KEMBLE, Frances Ann [Fanny]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Richard Bentley and Son
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1878 / 1882
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature Before 1900;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Winchester, Virginia
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