A Year of Consolation
- New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1847
New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1847. First American Edition. First printing. 12mo (19.5cm). Two volumes bound together in half black leather and dark brown cloth, titled in gilt on spine, all edges sprinkled red; plain endpapers; [vi],136,[1]-171,[1]pp. Sound and tight, rubbed at edges, mild foxing throughout: about Very Good.
Fanny Kemble was a popular British-American actress and bestselling memoirist whose several journals are now recognized as "rich psychological and cultural documents," with "keen insights into the enormous changes transforming" America (Mainiero American Women Writers II:446). This journal records her "recuperative year on the Continent" after leaving her husband, a wealthy Georgian plantation owner who would ultimately divorce her (ANB).
Fanny Kemble was a popular British-American actress and bestselling memoirist whose several journals are now recognized as "rich psychological and cultural documents," with "keen insights into the enormous changes transforming" America (Mainiero American Women Writers II:446). This journal records her "recuperative year on the Continent" after leaving her husband, a wealthy Georgian plantation owner who would ultimately divorce her (ANB).