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
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The master's irresponsible power has no such bound.
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Modesty is a diamond setting to female beauty.
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assuredly of all earthly conditions uncertainty is the most unblest ...
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Place, time, life, death, earth, heaven are divisions and distinctions we make, like the imaginary lines we trace upon the surface of the globe.
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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.
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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.