Fanny Kemble
Fanny Kemble
Frances Anne "Fanny" Kemblewas a notable British actress from a theatre family in the early and mid-19th century. She was a well-known and popular writer, whose published works included plays, poetry, eleven volumes of memoirs, travel writing and works about the theatre...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionActress
want done world
I want to do everything in the world that can be done.
husband men wish
[When her husband said her earnings as a married woman belonged to him:] I cannot persuade myself that that which I invent - create, in fact - can belong to anyone but myself! I wish that women could be dealt with, not mercifully, not compassionately, nor affectionately, but justly; it would be so much better - for the men.
dirty thinking hands
I never desire to know anything of the detail of political measures, lest even those which I think best should lose anything of their intrinsic value to me, by seeing what low, paltry, personal motives and base machinery and dirty hands have helped to bring them about.
morning cutting exercise
Yesterday morning I amused myself with an exercise of a talent I once possessed, but have so neglected that my performance might almost be called an experiment. I cut out a dress for one of the women.
spring flower hands
The spring is already here with her hands full of flowers.
masters bounds irresponsible
The master's irresponsible power has no such bound.
islands sugar mills
I have been taking my daily walk round the island, and visited the sugar mill and the threshing mill again.
successful government order
The vast concourse of people who had assembled to witness the triumphant arrival of the successful travellers was of the lowest orders of mechanics and artisans, among whom great distress and a dangerous spirit of discontent with the government at that time prevailed.
christmas shopping broken
Christmas is a season of such infinite labour, as well as expense in the shopping and present-making line, that almost every woman I know is good for nothing in purse and person for a month afterwards, done up physically, and broken down financially.
female modesty diamond
Modesty is a diamond setting to female beauty.
conditions uncertainty
assuredly of all earthly conditions uncertainty is the most unblest ...
oneness heaven earth
Place, time, life, death, earth, heaven are divisions and distinctions we make, like the imaginary lines we trace upon the surface of the globe.
abhorrent corporal labour manly sort
I said I thought female labour of the sort exacted from these slaves, and corporal chastisement such as they endure, must be abhorrent to any manly or humane man.
admit allowed class common comparison european faculties former lowest slaves
But I do not admit the comparison between your slaves and even the lowest class of European free labourers, for the former are allowed the exercise of no faculties but those which they enjoy in common with the brutes that perish.