Fanny and Adelaide: The Lives of the Remarkable Kemble Sisters (edition 2001)

by Ann Blainey

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Chronicles the lives of Fanny and Adelaide Kemble, from Fanny's acting career, marriage to and divorce from a Philadelphia slave-owner, and her work as an abolitionist; and Adelaide's successful opera career and troubled marriage.

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Title:	Fanny and Adelaide: The Lives of the Remarkable Kemble Sisters
Authors:	Ann Blainey
Info:	Ivan R. Dee, Publisher (2001), Edition: illustrated edition, Hardcover, 352 pages
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mambo_taxi: While one book is a double biography and the other is historical fiction, both deal with the precarious lives of female artists. Some characters you meet in their youth in Life Mask you meet again in their old age in Fanny and Adelaide. Both books are highly enjoyable.… (more)

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Meticulous research of letters has allowed this biography to be very detailed. Biogrpahers of the futue will have a harder time trying to find blogs with few people writing daily letters. The sisters made individual decisions in their lives trying to keep within better society. (

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Chronicles the lives of Fanny and Adelaide Kemble, from Fanny's acting career, marriage to and divorce from a Philadelphia slave-owner, and her work as an abolitionist; and Adelaide's successful opera career and troubled marriage.

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