JOURNAL OF FRANCES ANNE BUTLER.  Two volumes.

BUTLER,  Frances Anne Kimble.  JOURNAL OF FRANCES ANNE BUTLER.  Two volumes.                                              

Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1835. 8vo. Publishers cloth, later quarter-leather and cloth covered clam shell box. (iv), 13-252, (12); 1-218, (24) pages. First American edition. [Howes, B105].

The first journal of the celebrated British actress, poet, and dramatist (known by her stage name, Fanny Kimble) who married American, Pierce Butler in 1834 when she accompanied him to America.  First published in London in the same year, the American edition omitted the preface which was considered insulting to Americans with her candid assessments of her adopted country.  The journal relates her 1832 trip to America when she was the star of the British stage and before her marriage.  Original cloth covered board with paper labels on spine.  Very good.

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