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Фанни Кембл — английская актриса и писательница.

✵ 27. Ноябрь 1809 – 15. Январь 1893

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“Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.”

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Fanny Kemble

Further Records, 1848-1883, vol. 1; entry dated January 20, 1875 (1891).

“Though the Negroes are fed, clothed, and housed, and though the Irish peasant is starved, naked, and roofless, the bare name of freemen—the lordship over his own person, the power to choose and will—are blessings beyond food, raiment, or shelter; possessing which, the want of every comfort of life is yet more tolerable than their fullest enjoyment without them.”

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Fanny Kemble

Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839, ch. 1 (1863).

“As for the exhortation with which Mr. ------ closes his letter, that I will not "go down to my husband's plantation prejudiced against what I am to find there," I know not well how to answer it. Assuredly I am going prejudiced against slavery, for I am an Englishwoman, in whom the absence of such a prejudice would be disgraceful.”

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Fanny Kemble

Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839, ch. 1 (1863).

“A good many causes tend to make good masters and mistresses quite as rare as good servants…. The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar and ignorant people become possessed of splendid houses, splendidly furnished, do not, of course, give them the feelings and manners of gentle folks, or in any way really raise them above the servants they employ, who are quite aware of this fact, and that the possession of wealth is literally the only superiority their employers have over them.”

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Fanny Kemble

Further Records, 1848-1883, vol. 1; entry dated February 12, 1874 (1891).

“I want to do everything in the world that can be done.”

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Fanny Kemble

Journal of a Residence in America, entry for September 11, 1832 (1835).