click image for close-up According to Celia Davis, a slave on Pierce Butler's Hampton plantation, Fanny Kemble was a "nice white lady, very rosy, [with] clothes always got on so rich." Still a ...

Lady Butler was born, simply, Elizabeth Thompson in 1846 to a wealthy family. So pretty and delicate, there was no outward clue that she would grow up to be anything more than a text-book ...