Frances Anne Kemble

Frances Anne (Fanny) Kemble (1809–1893) came from the great theatrical family of Kemble and Siddons, and was herself a celebrated actress before her marriage to Pierce Butler of Georgia. Her Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation records her experience of slavery.

She also wrote verse throughout her life, and published Poems in 1844; the nature sonnet “Winter” and two other sonnets appear in Women Poets of the Victorian Era (1890).