Fanny Kemble's Civil War - Tapa blanda

"Clinton doesn't insist that her subject was flawless, but she finds her irresistible."--The New Yorker
"[Clinton] compellingly recreates the trials and torments of one of the 19th century's most remarkable women."--Parade
"Having brought Fanny Kemble to our attention is a worthy accomplishment, one all readers, theatre-goers, and champions of human rights ought to be thankful for."--The Boston Sunday Globe
"Catherine Clinton tells this story very well, adeptly mixing the strands of Kemble's multidimensional and bicontinental life...the author traces both the exotic and the typical qualities of this saga."--St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"Clinton doesn't insist that her subject was flawless, but she finds her irresistible."--The New Yorker
"[Clinton] compellingly recreates the trials and torments of one of the 19th century's most remarkable women."--Parade
"Having brought Fanny Kemble to our attention is a worthy accomplishment, one all readers, theatre-goers, and champions of human rights ought to be thankful for."--The Boston Sunday Globe
"Catherine Clinton tells this story very well, adeptly mixing the strands of Kemble's multidimensional and bicontinental life...the author traces both the exotic and the typical qualities of this saga."--St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"Clinton doesn't insist that her subject was flawless, but she finds her irresistible."--The New Yorker
"[Clinton] compellingly recreates the trials and torments of one of the 19th century's most remarkable women."--Parade
"Having brought Fanny Kemble to our attention is a worthy accomplishment, one all readers, theatre-goers, and champions of human rights ought to be thankful for."--The Boston Sunday Globe
"Catherine Clinton tells this story very well, adeptly mixing the strands of Kemble's multidimensional and bicontinental life...the author traces both the exotic and the typical qualities of this saga."--St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"Clinton doesn't insist that her subject was flawless, but she finds her irresistible."--The New Yorker

"[Clinton] compellingly recreates the trials and torments of one of the 19th century's most remarkable women."--Parade

"Having brought Fanny Kemble to our attention is a worthy accomplishment, one all readers, theatre-goers, and champions of human rights ought to be thankful for."--The Boston Sunday Globe

"Catherine Clinton tells this story very well, adeptly mixing the strands of Kemble's multidimensional and bicontinental life...the author traces both the exotic and the typical qualities of this saga."--St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"Clinton doesn't insist that her subject was flawless, but she finds her irresistible."--The New Yorker

"[Clinton] compellingly recreates the trials and torments of one of the 19th century's most remarkable women."--Parade

"Having brought Fanny Kemble to our attention is a worthy accomplishment, one all readers, theatre-goers, and champions of human rights ought to be thankful for."--The Boston Sunday Globe

"Catherine Clinton tells this story very well, adeptly mixing the strands of Kemble's multidimensional and bicontinental life...[T]he author traces both the exotic and the typical qualities of this saga."--St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"Kemble's life wasn't entirely devoted to the rights of women and the wrongs of slavery: she acted and wrote, had triumphs, pleasures, and friends, and she often feels like our contemporary. Clinton doesn't insist that her subject was flawless, but she finds her irresistible."--The New Yorker

"The interweaving of the institutionalized slavery of African-Americans with the civil subjugation of white, privileged, married women--Kemble's two civil wars--packs this biography with a complex and chilling commentary that reverberates under its rapid presentation."--The San Diego Union-Tribune

"Fanny Kemble is probably the most famous person of the 19th century that no one has heard of....Catherine Clinton's new biography traces the life of this extraordinay woman, whose exploits include writing one of the earliest firsthand accounts of Southern plantation life that is openly critical of slavery....Having brought Fanny Kemble to our attention is a worthy accomplishment, one all readers, theatregoers, and champions of human rights ought to be thankful for."--The Boston Sunday Globe

"This smashing new biography...should be as popular as Fanny Kemble herself was in the 19th century....Clinton is Kemble's equal--this biography is every bit as sharp, evocative and eloquent as Kemble's Journal.--Publisher's Weekly

A British stage star turned Georgia plantation mistress, Fanny Kemble is perhaps best remembered as a critic of slavery--and an influential opponent of this institution during the years leading up to the Civil War. By the mid-1830s, American society was firmly in the grip of Kemble's celebrity as an actress--young ladies adopted "Fanny Kemble curls," a tulip was named in her honor, and lecture attendance at Harvard fell so sharply on afternoons of Kemble's matinees that professors threatened to cancel classes. Catherine Clinton's insightful biography chronicles these early portraits of Fanny's life and shows how her role in society changed drastically after her bitter and short-lived marriage to the heir of a Georgia plantation owner, whom she derisively called her "lord and master." We witness the publication of Journal of a Residence on a Georgia Plantation, in which Kemble hauntingly records the "simple horror" and misery she saw among the slaves. The raw power of her words made for an influential anti-slavery tract, which swayed European sentiment toward the Union cause. The book was embraced by Northern critics as "a permanent and most valuable chapter in our history" (Atlantic Monthly). In Fanny Kemble's Civil Wars, Catherine Clinton reveals how one woman's life reflected in microcosm the public battles--over slavery, the role of women, and sectionalism--that fueled our nation's greatest conflict and have permanently marked our history.