Fanny Kemble's Civil Wars

I chose this book because Fanny Kemble belonged to a famous theatrical family that occasionally performed in plays based on the works of Sir Walter Scott.  I did thoroughly enjoy the narratives involving her family and all the challenges they faced in their profession.  I was very surprised at the avenue her life followed after she chose to tour America to help her family resolve a financial crisis.  Marrying a suitor who soon inherited the second largest slave plantation in Georgia unpredictably redirected her life and career.  Her publication of Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation and its effect on her life make this a fascinating read.  This will make our future visit to St. Simons Island more interesting.
The cast of characters in her life made this book even livelier than expected with Henry James thoughts at the very end.
She did play the part of Julia Mannering alongside her father as Guy Mannering in New York City in 1832.  Guy Mannering is one of Scott's more interesting novels.  Fanny Kemble and her father Charles Kemble were noted for their performances of Shakespeare.  The result of Fanny Kemble's American life deprived the Shakespearean and Scott stage of a luminary resulting from the American Civil War and what caused it.