Their own private civil war would foreshadow the country's. Fanny Kemble was an abolitionist; her husband Pierce Butler was a slaveholder. With such diametrically opposed views, it's no wonder that ...

A one-woman play that examines the rights of women in the first half of the 19th century will be performed during a February meeting of the Fox Chapel affiliate of the American Association of ...

SHAME THE DEVIL! AN AUDIENCE WITH FANNY KEMBLE, Stockyards Theatre Project, at the Majestic Midway Theatre. There’s a good play to be written about 19th-century actress and abolitionist Fanny Kemble.

Fanny Kemble is a famous star of the English stage, but while touring the United States, she gives up her career to marry wealthy American Pierce Butler. Moving with him from Philadelphia to his ...

Local History Librarian Amy Lafave will present "'When I think, I must speak': The World Stage of Fanny Kemble" at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, June 16, at the Lenox Library, 18 Main St. This program will be ...

Denise Sedor’s portrait entitled, “Fanny Kemble, Abolitionist” has been selected as the winner of the 2022 Historic Yellow Springs Art Show Poster Competition. A representation of the village’s ...

Lori Adams knows she connects with Fanny Kemble at least on one level: motherhood. "The mom thing is very big in the play," said Adams, a mother of two who is bringing to Lincoln a one-woman show ...

FANNY KEMBLE: A PASSIONATE VICTORIAN — Margaret Armstrong — Macmillan ($3). Though the Victorian era has long been considered smug and lacklustre, readers of Victorian lives may yet decide that ...