Frances Anne "Fanny" Kemble
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Volunteers bring you 28 recordings of Faith by Fanny Kemble.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 16, 2022.
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Fanny Kemble was a British actress who also found time to be a popular author of poetry, plays, travelogues, eleven volumes of memoirs, and more. She was an abolitionist after having been married for 14 years to a wealthy American plantation owner. This poem expresses the desire for trust over cynicism.