Records of a Girlhood eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 1,000 pages of information about Records of a Girlhood.

Records of a Girlhood eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 1,000 pages of information about Records of a Girlhood.
  recovery, 466;
  relapse, 467;
  still worse, 469;
  again recovering, 472;
  compared with Kean, 477;
  as Benedict, 478;
  recovery, 481;
  breaks his nose while skating, 490;
  an unfortunate compromise at Covent Garden, 513;
  bowed down with care and trouble, 515;
  refusing to act in “The Hunchback,” 517;
  examination before the House of Commons, 520;
  twice arrested, 522;
  farewell at Covent Garden, 529;
  his estate in St. Giles’, 536;
  beginning in New York with Hamlet, 536;
  his Romeo and Mercutio compared, 542;
  compared to Cooper in “Venice Preserved,” 544;
  likely to have to die abroad, 567.

Kemble, Mrs. Charles (Maria Therese de Camp), 2, 3, 4, 6, 65,
98, 109, 112, 118;
  at Drury Lane, 173;
  opinion of a stage costume, 190;
  her failing health, 193;
  returns to the stage after an absence of twenty years, 219;
  her interest in Fanny Kemble’s Juliet, 225, 267;
  arrival of in Manchester, 277;
  delicacy, 294;
  physical organization, 311;
  effect of reading Moore’s “Life of Byron,” 330;
  rage at a picture of her husband, 345;
  compared to Mrs. John Kemble, 358;
  ill health, 371;
  great pathetic and comic powers, 386;
  “Francis I.” dedicated to, 399;
  moving the furniture, 464;
  her horror of the sea, 482.

Kemble, Frances Anne, born 1809, 8;
  Newman Street, ib.;
  Westbourne Green, ib.;
  childish freaks, 10;
  at school at Mrs. Twiss’ at Cambridge Place, 13;
  punning from Shakespeare, 16;
  return to London at Covent Garden Chambers, 17;
  picture then said to be mine, 17;
  question as to my being born there, 17;
  anecdote with Talma, 25;
  went to school in France, 26;
  early pranks, 26;
  childhood petulance, 27;
  taken to an execution, 27;
  childhood terrors, 29;
  daily excursions, 30;
  yearly distribution of prizes, 30;
  residence at Craven Hill, 31;
  leaves Boulogne, 31;
  lodging in Gerard Street, 33, 34;
  visit from Uncle Kemble, 34;
  about Scott, Milton and Shakespeare, 36;
  first visit to Lausanne, 36;
  musical education, 37;
  contemplating suicide, 43;
  goes to Paris, 44;
  at school in the Rue d’Angouleme, 44;
  meets Lord Melbourne, 47;
  goes to hear Mr. Cesar Malan, 49;
  impressions of Drs. Channing, Dewey, Bellows, Furness, Follen, Wm. and
    Henry Ware, Frederick Maurice, Dean Stanley, Martineau and Robertson,
    49;
  school life at Mrs. Rowden’s, 54;
  schoolmates, ib.;
  a companion’s funeral, 55;
  reading Byron on the sly, 57;
  my music and dancing masters, 58;
  passion for dancing, 63;
  private theatricals, 67;
  first indications of dramatic talent, 70;
  a new home in the Champs Elysees, 70;

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