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Though the Negroes are fed, clothed, and housed, and though the Irish peasant is starved, naked, and roofless, the bare name of freemen—the lordship over his own person, the power to choose and will—are blessings beyond food, raiment, or shelter; possessing which, the want of every comfort of life is yet more tolerable than their fullest enjoyment without them.

Fanny Kemble

I am persuaded that we are all surrounded by an atmosphere — a separate, sensitive, distinct envelope extending some distance from our visible persons — and whenever my invisible atmosphere is invaded, it affects my whole nervous system. The proximity of any bodies but those I love best is unendurable to my body.

Fanny Kemble

It's always determined characters who make the greatest fools.

Fanny Kemble

An actor's life is the shadow of a cloud, the echo of a sound, the memory of a dream, nothing come of nothing. The finest actor does not create, he is but a translator of another man's work.

Fanny Kemble

As for the exhortation with which Mr. ——— closes his letter, that I will not "go down to my husband's plantation prejudiced against what I am to find there," I know not well how to answer it. Assuredly I am going prejudiced against slavery, for I am an Englishwoman, in whom the absence of such a prejudice would be disgraceful.

Fanny Kemble

Fanny Kemble

Fanny Kemble

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Born: November 27, 1809

Died: January 15, 1893 (aged 83)

Bio: Frances Anne "Fanny" Kemble was a notable British actress from a theatre family in the early and mid-19th century.

Known for:

Fanny Kemble's Journals
Records of a Girlhood
The star of Seville (1837)
Notes upon some of Shakespeare's Plays (1882)

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