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Summary
Fanny Kemble was born into the most famous acting dynasty of the London stage but, unlike her aunt, the legendary dame of tragedy Sarah Siddons, she did not want to be an actress. Growing up in the Romantic era, she would rather have been a poet like her friend Alfred Tennyson. However, when her father, the actor-manager of Covent Garden theatre, faced bankruptcy in 1829, her appearance as Juliet made her an overnight star. Performing together, she and her father became two of the world's first 'reality' celebrities, their family roles fascinating their audience as much as those they played on stage.
Table of Contents
| Family Tree | p. x |
| Acknowledgements | p. xiii |
| Introduction: A Reluctant Celebrity | p. 1 |
| The Importance of Being A Kemble - The History of a Theatrical House | |
| The House that Jack Built | p. 13 |
| An Aristocracy of the Word | p. 26 |
| Covent Garden: The Kemble House | p. 33 |
| 'To Charm the Sportive Throng' | p. 46 |
| Therese and Charles: A Melodrama | p. 57 |
| Confessions - an Account of a Romantic Education (or How Frances Anne Became Miss Kemble) | |
| Childhood | p. 77 |
| 'Cette diable de Kemble' | p. 95 |
| The Schoolgirl | p. 107 |
| The Forging of a Masculine Mind | p. 118 |
| 'The Glad Sunlight of Clear Thought' | p. 133 |
| Mothers and Daughters | p. 148 |
| Head, Heart and Literary Talent | p. 160 |
| Honorable Conduct and the Acting Profession | p. 171 |
| Miranda and Prospero | p. 189 |
| Selling Juliet | p. 196 |
| A Quest for Substance - The Making of Mrs Frances Anne Kemble | |
| Artists and Lay-Figures | p. 215 |
| 'One of Shakespeare's Women' | p. 231 |
| Revolution and Railways | p. 251 |
| An Introduction to Silver Forks | p. 266 |
| Living on the Highway | p. 275 |
| Looking for Bassanio | p. 288 |
| Augustus | p. 302 |
| Exile | p. 321 |
| That 'Big Bragging Baby' | p. 339 |
| Enter Pierce Butler - American Gentleman | p. 356 |
| New England | p. 376 |
| Niagara Falls | p. 393 |
| Slavery or a Wife's Duty | p. 410 |
| Georgia | p. 428 |
| Conclusion: Consequences | p. 450 |
| Notes | p. 458 |
| Bibliography | p. 480 |
| Index | p. 487 |
| Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved. |
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