Abstract
When she arrived along the Georgia sea island coast in 1838 with her husband and two small children, Fanny Kemble was an international celebrity. Born into the most celebrated theatrical family in England, Kemble was still in her teens when she became the talk of London for her performances as Juliet in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Her meteoric rise and her father's business failures prompted Kemble, her father, and an aunt to accept an invitation to tour the United States. In 1832, she portrayed Bianca in Fazio in New York City. The audience was moved, astonished and delighted (p. 53). After a month on stage in New York, Kemble journeyed to Philadelphia, where she attracted large and enthusiastic audiences. During her stay in the city she was showered with romantic attentions (p. 56) by various gentlemen, including Pierce Butler, heir to one of the largest slaveholding fortunes in the United States.
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