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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2 | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
James Parton, Horace Greeley, T. W. Higginson, J. S. C. Abbott, E. M. Hoppin, William Winter, Theodore Tilton, Fanny Fern, Grace Greenwood, Mrs. E. C. Stanton, Women of the age; being natives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present gentlemen | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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James Parton, Horace Greeley, T. W. Higginson, J. S. C. Abbott, E. M. Hoppin, William Winter, Theodore Tilton, Fanny Fern, Grace Greenwood, Mrs. E. C. Stanton, Women of the age; being natives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present gentlemen, Mrs. Frances Anne Kemble . (search)
Mrs. Frances Anne Kemble. James Parton.
There was excitement and expectation among the play-goers of New York, in the early days of September, 1832.
Stars, new to the firmament of America, were about to appear,--a great event in those simple days, when Europe supplied us with almost all we ever had of public pleasure.
Charles Kemble, brother of Mrs. Siddons the peerless, and of John Kemble the magnificent, was-coming to America, accompanied by his daughter, Fanny Kemble, the most brilliant of the recent acquisitions to the London stage.
Charles Kemble was then an exceedingly stout gentleman, of fifty-seven, fitter to shine in Falstaff than in Hamlet; yet such is the power of genuine talent to overcome the obstacles which nature herself puts in its way, that he still played with fine effect some of the lightest and most graceful characters of the drama.
He played Hamlet well, and Benedick better, when he must have weighed two hundred and fifty pounds; and people forgot, in
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, Chapter 17 : London again.—characters of judges.—Oxford.—Cambridge— November and December , 1838 .—Age, 27 . (search)
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, Chapter 18 : Stratford-on-avon.—Warwick.—London.—Characters of judges and lawyers.—authors.—society.—January , 1839 , to March , 1839 .—Age, 28 . (search)