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Fanny Kemble

Records of a GirlhoodFanny Kemble Records of a Girlhood PREFATORY NOTEConsiderable portions of this work originally appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, but there is added to these a large amount of new matter not hitherto published, and the whole work has been thoroughly revised.CHAPTER I A few yea...

PoemsFanny Kemble Poems LINES WRITTEN AT NIGHT August 9th, 1825 Oh, thou surpassing beauty! that dost liveShrined in yon silent stream of glorious light!Spirit of harmony! that through the vastAnd cloud-embroidered canopy art spreadingThy wings, that o’er our shadowy earth hang brooding,Like a pa...

Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation: 1838-1839Fanny Kemble Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation: 1838-1839 PREFACE The following diary was kept in the winter and spring of 1838-9, on an estate consisting of rice and cotton plantations, in the islands at the entrance of the ...