Records of a Girlhood / Records of Later Life / Further Records 1848--1883: A Series of Letters

New York: Henry Holt, 1884 / 1882 / 1891. First American Edition. First printings of Records of Later Life and Further Records. Second American edition of Records of a Girlhood. Octavo (19.5cm). Uniformly bound in varying colors of cloth, stamped with white floral all-over design, titled in gilt on front and spines; chocolate brown endpapers; [vi],605,[1]pp; [vi],676pp; [iv],380pp; lists of titles at front; portrait frontispiece in each volume. Records of a Girdhood is ex-library, with Egremont Free Library bookplate, paper and glue adhesions to pastedowns, and call number on spine; else straight, and sound with scattered foxing: Good. Records of Later Life is straight and tight, front hinge cracked, lightly rubbed, Very Good. Further Records lightly rubbed, sewing mildly loosened, both hinges cracked, just Very Good.

Fanny Kemble was a popular British-American actress and bestselling memoirist. Her several journals are "rich psychological and cultural documents," with "keen insights into the enormous changes transforming" America (Mainiero American Women Writers II:446). Her best-known work is now the abolitionist Journal of A Residence on a Georgian Plantation, 1838-1839 (1863), which contains her first-hand observations on slavery during her brief marriage to a Southern plantation owner.