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Author: Butler [Kemble], Frances Anne
Title: Journal. By Frances Anne Butler
Place Published: London
Publisher:John Murray
Date Published: 1835
Description:

2 volumes. [2], [13]-252 + [12] ads; [2], [5]-218 + [24] ad pp. 18.8x11.2 cm (7½x4½"), rebound by F.H. Wall in half brown sheepskin, marbled boards, morocco spine labels with rules and lettering in gilt, top edge colored brown, brown endpapers. First Edition.

An important and early travel journal. The author recounts her travels around the American east coast, where she was pursued by a number of "smitten suitors." Butler is best known by her maiden/stage name "Frances Anne Kemble" under which she wrote a number of plays, acted on both sides of the Atlantic and wrote her "Journal of a Residence on a Georgia Plantation" (1863). Robinson calls this "an uncomfortably gauche work whose indiscretions offended several prominent Americans, and which the English public quite adored." (Howes B 1051; Robinson, pp. 240-41; Sabin 9632).

Slight wear along edges of boards, marbled boards on vol 2 lightly worn, vol 1 joint tender; hinges cracked on both volumes, edges of textblocks faintly toned; interiors bright throughout; volumes very good for age.