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Fanny and Adelaide: The Lives of the Remarkable Kemble Sisters | 
 enlarge | Author: Ann Blainey
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee, Publisher
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 1227370
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.4 x 1.2
ISBN: 1566633729
Dewey Decimal Number: 792.028092
EAN: 9781566633727
ASIN: 1566633729
Publication Date: May 25, 2001
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It would be difficult to find, in European civilization in the last two centuries, two sisters who achieved more success across the arts and professions than Fanny and Adelaide Kemble, the subjects of Ann Blainey's engrossing twin biography. Born in 1809 to a celebrated theatrical family, Fanny was the most famous English-speaking actress of her day before she left the stage to marry the Philadelphia slaveowner Pierce Butler. Her sister Adelaide, five years her junior, ranks among the finest of English-born opera singers. Their complex and fascinating relationship is one of the major themes of this grand biography. Colorful adventures of two scions of a 19th-century English theatrical family. --Kirkus Reviews. Blainey paints vivid portraits of two determined, strong-willed women. --Booklist. Illustrated.
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 SPLENDID AND SKILLED PORTRAIT OF AN ERA June 7, 2003
Ann Blainey has done some remarkable, wonderful, and wholly original research to complete her excellent study, FANNY AND ADELAIDE. I found the book fascinating and wish I had Blainey's book in hard when I was preparing my own work on Fanny Kemble [FANNY KEMBLE'S JOURNALS AND FANNY KEMBLE'S CIVIL WARS]....I can vouch for Blainey's scholarly sensitivity and her vivid analysis: we may not agree with each other on every point, but I want to encourage those interested in this fascinating pair, those with an interest in 19th century women, and those looking for a smashing good read to buy Blainey's book!
 Fanny and Adelaide September 4, 2002
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I found this book to be a disappointment. I have ready many other books about Fanny Kemble and her tremendous contributions to the Abolitionist Movement. This book was sorely lacking in information regarding her courage and determination to stand up to the Pro-slavery forces which included her husband and children. The information about Adelaide's life was interesting. However, it seemed that Ms Blainey deliberately left out the inspiring political story of Fanny's life so as to keep the story of Adelaide's life on an even keel with Fanny's. To my mind, choosing to leave out information about Fanny so that Adelaide would not seem unexciting by comparison was a bad choice. Ms. Blainey's book would have been better had she included the truth about both sisters -- that Fanny fought against slavery at great personal sacrifice in addition to supporting herself financially as one of England's successful Shakespearean actresses while Adelaide chose to have a life primarily as a homemaker after resigning from her successful Operatic career. Ms. Blainey also emphasized jealousies between the sisters a bit too much. One wonders if she did so to make her story more acceptable to Hollywood, hoping that her book would be made into a movie. I have read of no other jealousies between the sisters from any other source. If the jealousies had been as bad as Ms. Blainey writes I believe I would have read about it from other researchers and authors as well.
Based on exclusive access to hundreds of family letters July 6, 2001
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Ann Blainey's Fanny And Adelaide provides a biography of two sisters born in 1809 to a theatrical family in England, who became actively involved in opera and theater. The jealousies and relationships between the talented sisters and their complex friendship is based on exclusive access to hundreds of family letters.
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