Records of Later Life

by Fanny Kemble

• Inglis, Sir Robert, [381]
• Insects, bugs, [33];
  • bees, [35];
  • ants, [35];
  • fire-flies, [36];
  • beetles, [36];
  • flies, [36];
  • mosquitoes, [37];
  • spiders, [37];
  • potato bugs, [37]
• Invitation to Hayti, [569]
• Irving, Edward, [21], [573]
• Israeli, D', [643], [665], [666]

• Jameson, Mrs., letters to, [1], [15], [18], [47], [51], [74], [75], [83], [92], [94], [97], [100], [103], [138], [146];
  • her book, [151];
  • letter to, [164];
  • her book on Canada, [172];
  • letters to, [190]; [289], [291], [323];
  • letters to, [412], [423], [429];
  • a horrid story, [449];
  • Adelaide Kemble's likeness, [450];
  • Mrs. Siddons' Memoir, [450];
  • her character, [454];
  • Mrs. Siddons' Memoir, [459]; [563];
  • relations with Lady Byron, [577]; [601], [614], [615]
• Jay, Mr., his book, [185]
• Jay, Mrs., [271]
• Jeffrey, Sydney Smith on, [215]; [380]
• Jeffreys, [530], [553], [566]
• Joachim, [579]
• Joan of Arc, [396]

• Kean, Charles, [636]
• Keeleys, [559]
• Kemble, Adelaide, "Aunt Dall," [605]
• Kemble, Adelaide, daughter of Charles, [47], [51], [59];
  • pressed flowers, [60];
  • going upon the stage, [87], [98];
  • her genius, [99]; [101], [139];
  • first appearance, [146];
  • in Turkey, [197];
  • at Palermo, [199];
  • first concert, [209]; [211]; [219];
  • her success, [222], [223], [226], [227];
  • at a séance, [235]; [241];
  • at Covent Garden, [248], [250];
  • her first public performance, [259], [267];
  • her success in London, [270];
  • her character, [292], [306];
  • "die Tine," [321]; [323], [325];
  • declines to sing at the Italian Opera-House, [325];
  • in Dublin, [328]; [330], [331], [332], [336];
  • her engagement, [338], [346];
  • her "Helen," [351]; [353];
  • her marriage, [354];
  • sings "Norma" for the last time, [357]; [361], [366], [367], [368], [373], [374];
  • compared with other artists, [377]; [418], [429], [444];
  • her health, [452];
  • song written by, [456]; [462], [507], [521], [529];
  • acquaintance with Mendelssohn, [544];
  • American spirit of conformity, [549]; [590];
  • house in London, [600];
  • her return, [621];
  • her house, [628];
  • letter from Italy, [643]
• Kemble, Charles, farewell to the stage, [46]; [48], [139], [143];
  • vase presented to, [177];
  • return to the stage, [196]; [197];
  • illness, [205];
  • sympathetic theory of convalescence, [206]; [208], [223], [252];
  • losses by the United States Bank, [270]; [294], [299], [304];
  • resumes the management of Covent Garden, [309], [322], [361];
  • his loss at Covent Garden, [365];
  • his illness, [365], [367], [369]; [371], [372], [373], [375], [418], [419], [421], [423], [432], [433], [435], [443], [444], [450];
  • debating the route, [455]; [458];
  • his deafness, [462];
  • on the Continent, [472];
  • gives up readings, [519];
  • declines to read "Antigone," [614]; [632];
  • compared with Macready, [636]; [653]
• Kemble, Mrs. Charles, story of a miniature, [195];
  • her acquaintance with Captain Clayton, [317]
• Kemble, Frances Ann, on marriage, [1], [70];
  • her first Fourth of July in America, [4];
  • fresh butter, [6];
  • her servants, [8];
  • her journal, [11];
  • double entry, [11];
  • her portrait, [13], [85];
  • portrait as Beatrice, [13];
  • her opinion of slavery, [16];
  • riding, [20];
  • study of the Bible, [21], [24];
  • treatise on slavery, [21];
  • fear, [25];
  • on emancipation, [29], [31];
  • babies and authorship, [33];
  • gardening, [33];
  • bugs, [33];
  • bees, [35];
  • ants, [35];
  • slavery, [35], [41], [185], [203];
  • fire-flies, [36];
  • beetles, [36];
  • flies, [36];
  • disappointment at not going South, [40];
  • complexion, [42];
  • voyage to England, [43];
  • the death-vision, [44];
  • London society, [45], [665];
  • waiting for a vessel, [56];
  • voyage to America, [67];
  • on Christianity, [71];
  • on members of the Convention, [73];
  • her "English Tragedy," [72], [73], [103]:
  • disease an invention, [77];
  • defence of Providence, [79];
  • illness of her child, [82];
  • on time, [84];
  • scorpions, [88];
  • birth of her child, [92];
  • on dying, [92];
  • on letter-writing, [95];
  • on singularity, [98];
  • death of her mother, [102];
  • going to Georgia, [103];
  • travelling with children, [105];
  • "they always washes two at a time," [107];
  • a North Carolina toilet, [112];
  • on labor, [114];
  • a night journey, [119];
  • a day's rest, [120];
  • the dread of singularity, [123];
  • the Charleston negroes, [125];
  • Margery's observations on Southerners, [126];
  • incidents of the voyage to Savannah, [129];
  • voyage to Darien, [130];
  • the outer bound of creation, [130];
  • welcome home, [131];
  • a lively sense of benefits to come, [133];
  • first visit to the sick house, [133];
  • "O Lord a mercy! sure this is never I," [136];
  • "What for you work, Missus?" [137];
  • education of children, [143], [179];
  • manifold avocations, [147];
  • her house, [147];
  • the Menai bridge, [148];
  • reading prayers to the slaves, [148];
  • Georgia journal, [159];
  • the Stafford House appeal, [159];
  • "A Fool's Errand," [160];
  • Pharisaism of early risers, [161];
  • a dumb child, [162];
  • her "bumps," [162];
  • her play, [165];
  • the future life, [166], [498], [547];
  • the teaching of experience, [168];
  • Forester, [171];
  • loneliness, [174];
  • on sorrow, [187];
  • beginning to die, [188];
  • on reason in education, [189];
  • on authorship, [190];
  • on sponsorship, [195];
  • jealous of her parts, [199];
  • on steamships, [201];
  • answering questions, [202];
  • Georgia journal, its publication, [203];
  • not allowed to return to Georgia, [205];
  • English ignorance of slavery, [205];
  • individual atmosphere, [207];
  • declines to meet Mlle. Ellsler, [213];
  • visits to Mrs. Grote, [209]-221;
  • on education, [221];
  • on daguerreotypes, [222], [224], [225];
  • a whirl of excitement, [226];
  • mesmeric experience, [230]-240;
  • as Jezebel, [239];
  • at Bannisters, [247];
  • run away with, [251];
  • a beautiful brute, [251];
  • on lace-making, [254];
  • travel in Germany, [255];
  • at Ehrenbreitstein, [257];
  • Schneider, [258];
  • a happy woman, [274];
  • exercise of agony, [279];
  • answering letters, [283], [284];
  • on sudden death, [286];
  • Poor things—all of us! [287];
  • on self-condemnation, [290];
  • the horrors, [308];
  • leaping in a carriage, [316];
  • on difference of nationality, [319];
  • her presentation, [320], [324];
  • the spirit of martyrdom, [326];
  • on dress, [327], [531];
  • on earning money, [330];
  • her return to America, [332];
  • visits Queen Adelaide, [341];
  • on married women's rights, [344], [422];
  • sequel to "The Stranger," [345];
  • her child's illness, [350];
  • acting "The Hunchback," [349];
  • her feeling toward America, [358];
  • leaving England, [361];
  • the secret of helping people, [375];
  • receptions, [373]; [379];
  • sea-sickness, [381];
  • a lawyer's bill, [385];
  • on the condition of Ireland, [387];
  • anti-slavery preaching, [388];
  • at Yellow Springs, [388], [393];
  • love, [397];
  • consciously unconscious, [398];
  • "The Memory of the Past," [399]; [400];
  • health, [401], [586];
  • changes in England, [402];
  • the nonsense of equality, [405];
  • a volume of poems, [406];
  • lodging-house insecurity, [408];
  • Duchess of Ormond, [409];
  • Icarus, [412];
  • her consolations, [414];
  • studying mathematics, [415];
  • her favorite horse, [417];
  • return to England, [418];
  • stability of things spiritual, [421];
  • requests for her influence, [426];
  • advice, [427];
  • on beauty, [433];
  • "Beaver hats," [435];
  • the Church service, [442];
  • going to Italy, [445];
  • [deathbed] utterances, [447];
  • her idea of Eve, [451];
  • her verses, [452];
  • Genesis, [453];
  • nervousness, [455];
  • "content," [456];
  • truth to be spoken, [456];
  • journey to Italy, [457], [458];
  • adversity, [461];
  • her journal, [463];
  • Rome, [463];
  • living below pitch, [468];
  • amusement, [469];
  • lies, [471];
  • equality between the sexes, [472];
  • her journal, [473];
  • returns to the stage, [474];
  • at the dentist's, [478];
  • laughter, [472];
  • her journal, Manchester, [480];
  • engagement in Dublin, [483];
  • her play, [483];
  • conversation versus correspondence, [486];
  • appearance at Manchester, [488];
  • at Birmingham, [494];
  • refused permission to act for charity, [497];
  • appearance at Liverpool, [499];
  • on reading, [505];
  • on government, [506];
  • "Hints to Religion," [509];
  • at Bath, [509];
  • on consistency, [516];
  • method of reading Shakespeare, [534];
  • on phrenology, [537]; on
  • "Vestiges of Creation," [543];
  • the Shakespearian celebration, [545];
  • on "Vestiges of Creation," [546];
  • "Psyche," [548];
  • lionizing an American, [549];
  • the ocean, [550];
  • Shakespeare, [552];
  • immortality, [552];
  • taking ether, [553];
  • an unfortunate, [555];
  • something that could not lie, [557];
  • a broken finger, [557];
  • "A Year of Consolation," [559];
  • a little outcast, [559];
  • night, [562];
  • reading at Eton, [563];
  • partial immortality, [564], [593];
  • the idea of God, [564];
  • human and divine goodness, [566];
  • dogmanity, [567];
  • "[Nature hath] framed strange fellows in her time," [568];
  • "Realities," [568];
  • emancipation and freedom, [569];
  • at Eton, [570];
  • freedom a protection, [574];
  • Calvinism, [575];
  • at Manchester—a gratuity, [578];
  • comments on readings, [579];
  • death of the Emperor of Russia, [580];
  • at Oxford, [582];
  • "What things these bodies are," [583];
  • at Bath, [585];
  • "an antidote to enthusiasm," [586];
  • reverence, [587];
  • officers of charities, [591]; [593];
  • burial money, [596];
  • proselyting, [597];
  • "Vanity Fair," [601];
  • love and self-love, [602];
  • improvement in manners, [604];
  • economy, [606];
  • at Yarmouth, [605];
  • the aristocratic principle, [608];
  • cleverness versus judgment, [609];
  • reading "Antigone," [614];
  • morality and politics, [616];
  • a beautiful woman, [617];
  • tact and sincerity, [618];
  • genius and helplessness, [623];
  • a ghost of a declaration, [627];
  • constancy, [627];
  • What is truth? [628];
  • "fortitude and similarity," [630];
  • reading Shakespeare, [632];
  • playing with Macready, [637];
  • future punishment, [645];
  • in Othello, [645];
  • on the French Revolution, [47];
  • as Ophelia, [648];
  • political changes in England, [650];
  • forms of government, [655];
  • Fourierism, [655];
  • subdivision of land, [656];
  • a first reading, [657];
  • a benefit for young actors, [656], [657], [658];
  • the political situation, [659];
  • the "Star Inn," [661];
  • the great Chartist meeting, [667];
  • return to America, [667];
  • success of readings, [667]
• Kemble, Henry, [487], [493]
• Kemble, Mrs. John, Sr., [195], [345]
• Kemble, John, censorship given to, [183];
  • editorship of the Review, [183]; [195], [240], [291], [331], [337], [424];
  • on Arnold, [431];
  • Lady Holland's bequest, [441];
  • his character, [481];
  • his book, [482]; [508], [585], [612], [613], [624]
• Kemble, Natalia, [291]
• Kenyon, [447]
• King, Lady Dashwood, [219]
• Kinglake, [436]
• King's Chapel, [28]
• Kingsbury, Mr., [602]
• Kingsley, Charles, [37]
• Kitchener, Dr., [9]
• Klopstock, [153], [283]
• Knowles, Mr., [475], [489]
• Knowles, Sheridan, [329]
• Kock, Paul de, [298], [300], [302]
• Kotzebue, [345]

• Lablache, [217]
• Labouchère, Mr., [501]
• Lamartine, [35], [658]
• Lamb, Charles, [283]
• Landseer, [63], [617]
• Lane, [225], [240], [653]
• Lansdowne, Lady, [45], [54], [270], [356], [664]
• Lansdowne, Lord, [45], [54], [270], [275], [277], [282], [296], [298], [662], [665]
• Lawrence, [439]
• Leader, [209]
• Legget, [186]
• Leighton, Sir Frederick, [239]
• Leinster, Duke of, [333]
• Lenox, no poor in, [7];
  • no beer in, [7];
  • laborers in, [8];
  • its scenery, [100], [158]
• Lewis, Dr., his attempt to magnetize, [231]
• Lexington, The, burning of, [187]
• Liberalism, [48]
• Liebig, [504], [508], [510]
• Liège, [253]
• [Liéven], Madame de, [649]
• Lincoln, Abraham, [160]
• Lind, Jenny, [209];
  • engrossed by Mrs. Grote, [217]; [444], [518], [519], [522]
• Lindsay, Lady Charlotte, [45], [62], [295], [356], [373], [419], [518]
• Liquor, [7], note.
• Liston, [206], [590], [592], [662]
• Liszt, [209], [241], [259];
  • his tour in Germany, [261];
  • his seven-leagued-boot style, [262];
  • his career, [263];
  • jealousy of Thalberg, [264]; [269], [321]
• Lockhart, [419]
• London Assurance, [223]
• London, riots in, [651], [652], [667]
• London society, [45], [48], [665]
• Londonderry, Lady, [320], [323], [340]
• Longfellow, Fanny, [553]
• Longfellow, H. W., [18], [61]
• Longfellow, Mrs., [101], [228]
• Louis Napoleon, [667]
• Louis Philippe, [647], [666]
• Lovelace, Lady, [165]
• Lumley, [325]
• Luzzy, Mademoiselle de, [520]

• Macaulay, [65], [273], [281];
  • his discourse, [282]; [371]
• Macdonald, Sir John, [243]
• Mackenzie, [370], [372]
• Mackintosh, Mrs. Robert, [18], [101]
• Mackintosh, Sir James, [500]
• Macready, [103], [143], [172], [407], [409], [501], [556], [595], [619], [629], [631];
  • his manners, [635];
  • his character, [636];
  • his stage temper, [637];
  • in Macbeth, [638];
  • his violence, [642], [648];
  • his selfishness, [644];
  • in Othello, [645], [646];
  • in Hamlet, [651]
• Macready, Mrs., [423]
• Maddox, [621], [622], [633], [629], [630], [642]
• Magnetism, [228]-240
• Mair, Lizzie, [424], [529], [530], [531], [533]
• Mair, Major, [525], [531];
  • solitary confinement, [533]
• Malibran, [48], [87], [100], [207], [267], [377]
• Malkin, Arthur, [500], [541]
• Manzoni, "Ode to Napoleon," [571]
• Marcet, Mrs., [510]
• Margery, her successor, [178];
  • her proselyting spirit, [178];
  • her illness, [410]
• Mario, discharged, [325]
• Marlowe, [21]
• Marryatt, [176]
• Martineau, Miss, [3];
  • in Philadelphia, [10]; [16];
  • her books, [52];
  • "Deerbrook," [53], [65];
  • her book on America, [80]; [503], [50], [505]
• Mason, Charles, [497], [500], [502], [508], [510], [511], [514], [515]
• Masson, Miss, [373]
• Maulay, Lord de, [514]
• Maurice, [573]
• Maxse, "Go along Maxse," [315]
• Mays, Dr., [503]
• Mease, Dr., [13]
• Melbourne, Lord, [448]
• Melgund, Lady, [519]
• Mendelssohn, [209], [210], [262], [265], [375];
  • his death, [543], [544]; [573];
  • his "Antigone," [613]; [639]
• Mercadante, [293]
• Merimée, [585]
• Mesmerism, [228]-240
• Metternich, [649], [652], [659]
• Metternich, Madame de, [264]
• Millevoye, [585]
• Milman, [419], [427], [442], [666]
• Milman, Mrs., "You know one never means what one says," [442]; [666]
• Milnes, Monckton, [434], [447], [666]
• Mitchell, Mr., [519];
  • reading Shakespeare, [534]; [613], [615], [618], [634];
  • price of readings, [661]
• Mitchell, Mrs., [513], [519], [520], [521];
  • character, [522]; [527];
  • opinions, [527];
  • children, [529];
  • dress, [531]; [536], [539], [600], [602], [618], [619]
• Molesworth, Sir William, [209]
• Montague, Mr. and Mrs. Basil, [52], [521]
• Montez, Lola, [631]
• Moody, surrenders his watch, [317]
• Moore, [271], [273];
  • "dat little dentleman," [277]; [281]
• Mordaunt, Miss, [555]
• Morier, [589]
• Morley, Lady, [45], [63], [65], [66];
  • bereavements, [554];
  • truth-speaking, [554];
  • "a mermaid," [554];
  • her predecessor, [555];
  • shows her house, [555]
• Morley, Lord, [555]
• Morpeth, Lord, [305], [318], [359], [401]
• Moscheles, [262], [265]
• Mott, Lucretia, [162], [307]
• Moxon, Edward, [477], [479], [483]
• Mozart, [264], [306]
• Mulliner, Mrs., [529], [530], [532], [553], [571], [572]
• Muloch, Miss, [574]
• Murray, Charles, [162]
• Murray, Lady Augusta, [338]
• Murray, Mr., [530]
• Muskau, Prince Puckler, [608]
• [Mussy], Dr. Gueneau de, [501]

• Naples, King of, [644]
• Nemours, Duc de, [647]
• Nemours, Duchess de, [647]
• Nisbett, Mrs., [555]
• [Normanby], Lord, [284]
• Normanby, Lady, [647]
• Normanby, Lord, [222]
• Norton, Mrs. Charles, [169]
• Novello, Clara, [377]

• O'Connell, [302]
• Orleans, Duchesse d', [647]
• O'Sullivan, John, [401], [410], [427], [432]
• O'Sullivan, Mrs., [423]

• Pahlen, Count, [666]
• Palmerston, Lady, Lady Holland's bequest, [442]
• Panizzi, [371]
• Parker, Theodore, [568]
• Pasta, [48], [49], [50], [87], [100], [261], [377], [631]
• Paton, Miss, [377]
• Patterson, Mary, [459]
• Peel, Sir Robert, [305], [460], [641]
• Persiani, [207]
• Philadelphia, Riots in, [412], [416]
• Philips, Secretary, [520]
• Pigott, Dick, [240]
• Planchette, [236]-238
• Potocki, Alfred, [485], [487], [635], [652], [653]
• Prandi, [620]
• Praslin, Duc de, [520]
• Praslin, Duchesse de, [519]
• Praslin, Madame de, [630]
• Prescott, [172]
• Procter, Adelaide, [577]
• Procters, [52], [227], [373], [434], [435], [436], [447], [455], [456], [460], [521], [577]
• Prussia, King of, [295], [296]
• Public Schools in England, [276]
• Pulaski, The, loss of, [95]

• Quincey, De. See De Quincey.

• Rachel, [50], [228], [241];
  • her appearance, [243];
  • her genius, [244];
  • her tenderness, [246], [518], [548]
• Rackeman, Frederick, [193]
• Radley, Mr., [496]
• Rainsforth, Miss, [330]
• Raphael, his "Eve," [451]
• Reeve, Henry, [447]
• Revel, Count Adrien de, [521], [527], [528]
• Revel, Emily de, [521]
• Richmond, [609]
• Richmond, Duchess of, [303], [339]
• Richter, [228]
• Ristori, [246]
• Ritchie, Mrs., [626]
• Roberts, [649]
• Roberts, Miss, [581]
• Robertson, [562]
• Rocca, [345]
• Roebuck, [209]
• Rogers, [45], [58], [59];
  • "the kindest heart and the unkindest tongue," [65];
  • "young poetry," [66];
  • visits Mrs. Grote, his sarcastic temper, [213];
  • "Publish it!" [215]; [222], [271], [273];
  • lines by, [277]; [281];
  • "What I was saying will keep!" [281]; [373], [381], [425], [427];
  • much altered, [429];
  • on Arnold, [431]; [433];
  • reading Sydney Smith's letters, [434]; [436];
  • on Lady Holland, [441]; [444], [460];
  • his generosity, [478];
  • loss of memory, [554]; [615]
• Roman Reforms, [542]
• Romilly, Edward, [510]
• Romilly, Sir Samuel, [192]
• Ros, Lord de, cheats at cards, [73]
• Rossini, [378]
• Rothschild, Baroness Louis, [281]
• Rubinstein, [262]
• Russell, Lord John, Lady Holland's bequest, [441], [460], [665]
• Russia, Emperor of, [580]
• Ruthven, Lady, [531]
• Rutland, Duke of, [281], [300], [319], [338], [340]