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Abolition and the Actress: Fanny Kemble's Evolving Views on Slavery and Gendered Exploitation in Labour and Trade

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dc.contributor.authorFlaherty, Kate
dc.contributor.editorGilli Bush-Bailey
dc.contributor.editorKate Flaherty
dc.date.accessioned2024-06-24T22:48:31Z
dc.date.available2024-06-24T22:48:31Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.date.updated2024-05-19T08:18:55Z
dc.description.abstractActress Fanny Kemble (1809-93) led a transatlantic existence throughout her adult life. As burgeoning star and hope of the Siddons/Kemble dynasty, she crossed from Liverpool to New York in 1832 to make her fortune on the American stage. She then forsook the stage to marry a Georgian slave owner. Her life entailed 15 further crossings on account of deeply embedded interests - both public and private - in Britain and the United States. This chapter analyses how her particular experiences as a female worker in the expanding international entertainment industry shaped her critique of the race and gender-based injustices underpinning slavery as she witnessed and recorded it on her husband's plantations. It argues that her Journal of Residence on a Georgian Plantation (1863) in its 25-year transatlantic journey from private memoir to public polemic, reveals a touring performer's unique understanding of global, including human, commodity trade.
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_AU
dc.identifier.isbn9781003055860
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1885/733713380
dc.language.isoen_AUen_AU
dc.publisherRoutledge Taylor & Francis Group
dc.relation.ispartofTouring Performance and Global Exchange 1850-1960: Making Tracks
dc.rights© 2022 The authors
dc.titleAbolition and the Actress: Fanny Kemble's Evolving Views on Slavery and Gendered Exploitation in Labour and Trade
dc.typeBook chapter
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage188
local.bibliographicCitation.placeofpublicationLondon
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage171
local.contributor.affiliationFlaherty, Kate, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANU
local.contributor.authoruidFlaherty, Kate, u5046038
local.description.embargo2099-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.description.refereedYes
local.identifier.absfor360403 - Drama, theatre and performance studies
local.identifier.absfor470504 - British and Irish literature
local.identifier.ariespublicationu5163985xPUB244
local.identifier.doi10.4324/9781003055860-11
local.publisher.urlhttps://www.taylorfrancis.com/
local.type.statusPublished Version

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