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Fanny Kemble
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The first of a long line of 19th century actor-managers, Kemble took over management of Covent Garden in 1803, but his tenure was not a happy one. The theatre burnt down in 1808 and when it was rebuilt the following year Kemble raised prices to cover costs resulting in the now infamous Old Price Riots.
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Joining the Northumbrian's demonstration run, between Manchester and Liverpool, was a beautiful young actress, Fanny Kemble. She was playing in Liverpool at the time, and had been invited to ride the new train with both George and Robert Stephenson.
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If Fanny ever wrote down her reasons for this change of heart and strategy, she later destroyed the record. But it seems obvious that by giving up her daughters for a few years she could win the right to her own independence and secure their love. Nothing but a revision in the law could have restored them to her before their majority, and laws are not changed by a single pleading, even by a Rufus Choate.
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Fanny Kemble had the good fortune to meet the great names of her day. She mixed with English royalty and two presidents of the USA, as well as the likes of William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Walter Scott and Alfred Lord Tennyson from the writing fraternity; actors Edmund Kean and William Macready; and the inventor of the Rocket, on which she made an inaugural trial run, George Stephenson.
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Kemble Park is a 6 acre, largely passive use park cared for by the Fairmount Park Commission. Established in 1922, the park was named in honor of Fanny Kemble, actress, poet, and abolitionist. It is located in the Logan section of the city, at Olney and Ogontz Avenues. Kemble Park includes a basketball court and play equipment.
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Fanny was trapped. Like Ariel, she was bound to serve out her term at tasks that might have seemed light or pleasant to another lint were onerous to her. She was subjected to a glare of publicity and adulation that robbed her of most of the advantages of her success and added other strains to the physical and emotional ordeal of performing three or four times each week.
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