| Book Reviews | The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 132.3

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Fanny Kemble: A Performed Life. By Deirdre David. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. xix, 350 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $39.95.)
This very lively and engaging volume is a wonderful introduction into the world of one of the nineteenth century's most celebrated theatrical performers. From Fanny Kemble's debut at Covent Garden in 1829, where she was an instant sensation, until her death in 1893, by which time she was a beloved friend of Henry James, she became an acclaimed actress and author on both sides of the Atlantic.	1
David begins her chronicle by promising to pay "tribute to that bright abundance" of Kemble's "vivid occupation of the moment," and the book delivers on these grounds (xix). David takes her cue from Henry James, who suggested that Kemble was "dramatic long after she ceased to be theatrical," and this biographical portrait offers a bounty of material on Kemble's theatricality (287).	. . .

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