ISBN: 9780820307077

ID: 978082030707

Originally published in 1863, out-of-print and unavailable for almost a century, Frances Anne Kemble's Journal has long been recognized by historians as unique in the literature of American slavery and invaluable for obtaining a clear view of the peculiar institution and of life in the antebellum South.Fanny Kemble was one of the leading lights of the English stage in the nineteenth century. During a tour of America in the 1830s she met and married a wealthy Philadelphian, Pierce Butler, part of whose fortune derived from his family's vast cotton and rice plantation on the Sea Islands of Georgia. After their marriage she spent several months living on the plantation. Profoundly shocked by what she saw, she recorded her observations of plantation life in a series of journal entries written as letters to a friend. But she never sent the letters, and not until the Civil War was on and Fanny was divorced from Pierce Butler and living in England were they published.This Brown Thrasher edition incorporates the valuable introduction written by John A. Scott for the 1961 edition published by Alfred A. Knopf, together with the editor's appendices to that edition. It provides the modern reader with the historical and biographical background to move freely and with ease in Mrs. Kemble's world. Frances Anne Kemble, Books, Social and Cultural Studies, Social Science, Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839 Books>Social and Cultural Studies>Social Science, University of Georgia Press

ISBN: 9780820307077

ID: 9780820307077

Originally published in 1863, out-of-print and unavailable for almost a century, Frances Anne Kemble's "Journal" has long been recognized by historians as unique in the literature of American slavery and invaluable for obtaining a clear view of the "peculiar institution" and of life in the antebellum South.Fanny Kemble was one of the leading lights of the English stage in the nineteenth century. During a tour of America in the 1830s she met and married a wealthy Philadelphian, Pierce Butler, part of whose fortune derived from his family's vast cotton and rice plantation on the Sea Islands of Georgia. After their marriage she spent several months living on the plantation. Profoundly shocked by what she saw, she recorded her observations of plantation life in a series of journal entries written as letters to a friend. But she never sent the letters, and not until the Civil War was on and Fanny was divorced from Pierce Butler and living in England were they published.This Brown Thrasher edition incorporates the valuable introduction written by John A. Scott for the 1961 edition published by Alfred A. Knopf, together with the editor's appendices to that edition. It provides the modern reader with the historical and biographical background to move freely and with ease in Mrs. Kemble's world.; Society, Politics & Philosophy, University of Georgia Press

1984, ISBN: 9780820307077

ID: 868769329

Astoria, Oregon, USA: Brown Thrasher Books, The University of Georgia Press, 1984. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Edited, with an introduction by John A. Scott. A classic account of life among slaves and slaveholders in the U.S. South. Golden brown illustrated wrappers are bright and clean, unmarked, with light wear to extremities. Tight and square binding. Internals very clean, no markings, no creasing. Fanny Kemble was on the English stage in the 19th century; in 1830, she was on tour in America and met and married Pierce Butler, from a wealthy family whose income was largely from the family rice and cotton plantation on the Sea Islands of Georgia. 600 slaves worked on the plantation, Fanny was shocked by what she saw and recorded her observations in a journal written as letters to a friend, They were never sent and never published until after her divorce in 1863. They incited controversy when published but lapsed out of print after the Civil War, until this book was reissued in 1961. A classic work about the South, slavery, plantation life in the antebellum South. 415 pages. Index viii pages. 5.4 x 8.5 inches. University of Georgia Press, Athens, Georgia, USA, Brown Thrasher Books, The University of Georgia Press, 1984

1984, ISBN: 9780820307077

ID: 852205516

Astoria, Oregon, USA: Brown Thrasher Books, The University of Georgia Press, 1984. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Edited, with an introduction by John A. Scott. A classic account of life among slaves and slaveholders in the U.S. South. Green and white wrappers are bright and clean, unmarked, with faint wear to extremities. Tight and square binding. Internals very clean, no markings, no creasing. Fanny Kemble was on the English stage in the 19th century; in 1830, she was on tour in America and met and married Pierce Butler, from a wealthy family whose income was largely from the family rice and cotton plantation on the Sea Islands of Georgia. 600 slaves worked on the plantation, Fanny was shocked by what she saw and recorded her observations in a journal written as letters to a friend, They were never sent and never published until after her divorce in 1863. They incited controversy when published but lapsed out of print after the Civil War, until this book was reissued in 1961. A classic work about the South, slavery, plantation life in the antebellum South. 415 pages. Index viii pages. 5.4 x 8.5 inches. University of Georgia Press, Athens, Georgia, USA, Brown Thrasher Books, The University of Georgia Press, 1984

1984, ISBN: 9780820307077

ID: 9780820307077

Softcover book. 488 pages. Published by University of Georgia Press (1984) Media > Book, [PU: University of Georgia Press]