The Terrific Kemble
A Victorian Self Portrait from the writings of Fanny Kemble Edited by ELEANOR RANSOME abridged in five parts and produced by JOHN KNIGHT Read by Sarah Badel (1)
' I went a couple of nights since to a little party ... I met everyone, including the terrific Kemble herself, whose splendid handsomeness of eye, nostril and mouth were the best things in the room.' (HENRY JAMES: December 18721 Fanny Kemble was the niece of John Philip Kemble and Mrs Siddons. Scott, Tennyson and Thackeray were among her admirers. In America her fame rests on her passionate abhorrence of slavery. Her journals, letters and memoirs were first published 100 years ago and vividly reflect the contemporary scene during a life which spanned almost the whole of the 19th century.