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Fanny Kemble Butler : Journal [of her residence in America]

Lady Callcott to John Murray (c.1835): 'Let me thank you for Mrs. Butler: very clever, very romantic, some excellent feelings, but (may I say) not as [italics]womanly[end italics] as I would have liked. A little too much of the tone of one living chiefly with men -- the green-room, in short. I have read a volume and a half [...] Mrs. Butler's "Journal" appears to me to improve as she goes on. The things to be objected to appear more seldom, and her criticisms on her own art and what is connected with it are so good that I should like to see tham separated and much enlarged. She is a clever, and moreover a shrewd observer; and setting apart the intentional descriptions, there are traits throughout that mark a strong and fine hand.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Callcott      Print: Book

 

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