Condition Collectible - Good
Vintage 1938 Hardcover Edition. In used condition but very nice for it's age. (See Pics). Binding is tight with no hinge, pages in great condition, straight, very light even tanning as expected with a book of this age. Poi inside front cover otherwise clean pages with no marks. This book was purchased at an Estate sale.
Book Review
Biography covering 83 years of Fanny Kemble's life. Though reared in a theatrical atmosphere, it was only her father's failure with Covent Garden that precipitated her going on the stage. Her first role was Juliet, when she was seventeen; at nineteen she was the toast of England, repeated her success in America, and then married disastrously, Pierce Butler, vacillating, unfaithful slave owner. Her divorce -- her fame as a Shakespearean reader -- and the sensation caused by her writings kept her a storm center for years. Interesting material, skillfully handled, and mirroring the theatre in England and America in the '30's and '40's, against a social and economic background of the period, and giving a new angle on the slave question and the Civil War and so on. Varied in interests and good reading. (Kirkus Review)
