Simon & Schuster 2000 1st Edition Hardcover Fine in Fine jacket Book Large, sturdy book, white spine, brown boards, bright bronze lettering on spine, 302 pages, small antique illustrations and portraits throughout. DJ glossy with a stunning portrait in color of Fanny Kemble on front, white spine and back with thin ornate gilt borders, praise on back. DJ has tiny light smudge near middle back. Near Very Fine DJ/Very Fine book.

New York. 2000. September 2000. Simon & Schuster. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket . 0684844141. 303 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Kai Chu. keywords: Civil War Women Feminism History America Southern. FROM THE PUBLISHER - 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 ...

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster, Date: 2000. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The story of America's most unlikely abolitionist. 302 pages. Includes dust jacket. 2000. Simon & Schuster ISBN 0684844141 9780684844145 [US]

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ISBN10: 0684844141, ISBN13: 9780684844145, [publisher: Simon & Schuster, New York] Hardcover First Edition 302pp, b/w photos, bibliography, index. Cloth-backed papered boards in dust-jacket which is rubbed on the rear cover. 'A British stage star sturned Georgia plantation mistress, Fanny Kemble, is perhaps best known as America's most unlikely abolitionist, whose passionate writings against human bondage made her a heroine of the Union cause.' Size: 8vo
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ISBN10: 0684844141, ISBN13: 9780684844145, [publisher: Simon & Schuster] Hardcover First Edition New York. 2000. September 2000. Simon & Schuster. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket . 0684844141. 303 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Kai Chu. keywords: Civil War Women Feminism History America Southern. FROM THE PUBLISHER - 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 ...
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ISBN10: 0684844141, ISBN13: 9780684844145, [publisher: Simon & Schuster] Hardcover Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.35
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ISBN10: 0684844141, ISBN13: 9780684844145, [publisher: Simon and Schuster, New York] Hardcover First Edition First printing, full number line. Signed by the author on the S&S colophon page: "Catherine Clinton." The book is unmarked; slight spine slant; corners sharp, spine ends unbumped. The dust jacket is price-clipped; Brodart protected.
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