Author: BUTLER Mrs. [Fanny Kemble]
Title: A Year of Consolation with Autograph Letter Signed (Als)
Description: New York, Wiley & Putnam, 1847. First American Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes bound in one, publisher's black half morocco with matching corners. An account of the popular actress's year after leaving her husband, a wealthy Georgian plantation owner who ultimately divorced her. A 2-3/8" x 3-1/2" albumen photograph of Kemble is pasted to the verso of the front blank, and tipped to the verso of the rear endpaper is an uncommon AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED by Kemble to "My dear young Lucy" on "the order of nature for a pretty young girl to be bestowing flowers on an elderly woman. Occasional light foxing; front hinge holding by one cord, joints rubbed. Very Good .

Keywords: Signed, 19th Century American Literature, Women Authors, Southern Literature, Autobiography, Theater, Americana Signed Literature: American Autobiography 19th Century American Literature


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