Catherine Clinton
Auteur van Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom
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Catherine Clinton is the author of Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom and Fanny Kemble's Civil Wars. Educated at Harvard, Sussex, and Princeton, She is a member of the advisory committee to the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, and holds a chair in U.S. history at Queen's University Belfast.
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Stepdaughters of History: Southern Women and the American Civil War (Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern… (2016) 9 exemplaren
Women in Slavery: Selections from her Journal of Residence on a Georgian Plantation, 1838-1839 (2012) — Redacteur — 3 exemplaren
The southern social network : from the Journal of southern history, volume 83, no. 1, February 2017 1 exemplaar
The black soldier 1492 to present 1 exemplaar
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A Black Woman's Civil War Memoirs: Reminiscences of My Life in Camp With the 33rd U.S. Colored Troops, Late 1st… (1988) — Introductie, sommige edities — 152 exemplaren
Forgotten Heroes: Inspiring American Portraits from Our Leading Historians (1999) — Medewerker — 109 exemplaren
The Women's War in the South: Recollections and Reflections of the American Civil War (1999) — Introductie — 40 exemplaren
Manners and Southern History (Chancellor Porter L. Fortune Symposium in Southern History Series) (2007) — Medewerker — 4 exemplaren
Thirty-Eight Ways to Take a Rare Book Seriously: A catalogue of original editions of influential books from the Special… (1982) — Medewerker — 2 exemplaren
Cultural correspondence : No. 9 Sex roles & humor — Medewerker — 1 exemplaar
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Pulitzer Prize: Biography Jury Chair (1993)
Pulitzer Prize: History Jury (1986) (toon alle 18)
Frank Klement Lecture (1999-2000)
Francis Parkman Prize Committee (1991)
Lincoln Prize Jury (1995)
Averitt Lectures, Georgia State College (1996)
President of Southern Association for Women Historians (1997-98)
Alex W. Bealer Prize, Atlanta Historical Society (1998)
Bank Street Poetry Prize, Bank Street College of Education (1998)
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Biographers International Organization; founding meeting at City University of New York (March 26, 2009) Study Leader of Smithsonian Journey: “Lost Worlds, The American South Past and Present,” 2003, 2004, 2005 & 2006 Gilder Lehrman Summer Institute, NYU University, July 2004 & 2005; Seminar Leader: “Freedom” (March 26 ∙ 2009)
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As my regular reader knows, I am fascinated by the nineteenth century actress and writer Fanny Kemble. I first encountered her witnessing the first ever fatal train accident, and then read her controversial memoir of living as the wife of a Georgian plantation owner in the 1830s. She seems a really attractive character, and my problem has been that none of the books I had previously read about her grasps the whole of her personality and career; Fanny Kemble: A Performed Life, by Deirdre David, concentrates on her theatrical activity and aspirations; Fanny Kemble and the lovely land, by Constance Wright, emphasises the American part of her life; and Fanny Kemble: The Reluctant Celebrity, by Rebecca Jenkins, is just poorly written.
To refresh your memory, when Fanny Kemble was born in 1809, her father’s family completely dominated the British theatre world; her aunt was the famous actress Sarah Siddons, the oldest of a dozen Kemble siblings who all went into show business. The family fell on hard times in the 1820s and ruthlessly marketed her as Juliet, both in London and in North America. She married a charming American in 1834, but discovered that the foundation of his wealth was slavery; they separated and eventually divorced. Her ex-husband also fell on hard times and auctioned off 436 slaves, the largest slave auction in American history, in 1859. Her book about life on the plantation, based on letters written in 1838-39, was published in 1862 and effectively deterred British sympathy for the Confederacy. She returned to London in 1877 and lived there for the rest of her life, performing on stage occasionally, but usually doing solo readings (she was clearly very good at it). She died in 1893.
I’m glad to say that I’ve finally found a book about her that I can recommend to the curious. Like Constance Wright, Catherine Clinton in Fanny Kemble’s Civil Wars concentrates on her American experience, but gives a lot more context and depth, and gives due regard to the English parts of her life. (We think of her as English, but her mother was born in Vienna to a Swiss mother and French father.) She does not shy away from the political side of Kemble’s life, and it’s made clear that a large part of what drove her was determination to improve the situation of women (though she rejects “organised feminism” on page 235). As I mentioned in one of my previous reviews, while audiences (and her husband) loved to see her as Juliet, her favourite Shakespeare character was Portia. (Merchant of Venice Portia, not Brutus’ wife in Julius Caesar.)
Clinton also adds much more about Kemble’s family than I think I had seen before. The fact that her favourite aunt died as the result of a coach accident soon after they had arrived together in America must have resonated profoundly for her. Clinton also traces her and her siblings’ descendants in America – her two daughters were estranged to different degrees by their parents’ bitter separation, and ended up basically on opposite sides in the Civil War; in 1874, her English nephew married the daughter of the President of the United States in a ceremony at the White House.
Due to my interest in Doctor Who, I’ve read a fair number of showbiz memoirs, and I have come to the conclusion that most actors are interested in themselves and in acting, usually in that order, and in not much else. I think it’s appropriate that Clinton treats Kemble’s theatrical career as of secondary importance to her writing and her activism. Although Kemble is always remembered as an actress, in fact she spent only five years out of her eighty-four as a regular performer in plays; but she leveraged the reputation that she had earned for the rest of her career. (And the revenue from her later solo readings cannot have done her any harm.) She enlivened a rich life experience by writing well, and I should start reading some more of her original work.… (meer)