Adelaide Kemble 1815 – 1879 was a British opera singer of great promise in the first half of the nineteenth century.
Frances Anne Kemble 1809 – 1893 was a famous British actress and author in the early and mid nineteenth century.
Adelaide and Fanny Kemble were sisters who advocated homeopathy.
Adelaide Kemble was a friend of Frederic Chopin, Julia Margaret Cameron, Pauline Viardot García, Anne Thackeray Ritchie, Alfred Lord Tennyson, and Ivan Turgenev. Her son Algernon married Ellie, the daughter of Ulysses Simpson Grant.
Fanny Kemble was a friend of Eliza Middleton Fisher. Continue Reading »
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