Pierce Butler

Standard Name: Butler, Pierce
Used Form: Pierce M. Butler

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Fanny Kemble
FK met her future husband and tormentor during the American tour, in Philadelphia, on 13 October 1832. He saw her perform, and courted her. She professed herself initially uninterested in his suit.
Clinton, Catherine. Fanny Kemble’s Civil Wars. Simon and Schuster, 2000.
56
Foner, Eric. “I just get my pistol and shoot him right down”. London Review of Books, Vol.
40
, No. 6, 22 Mar. 2018, pp. 25-6.
25
A...
Family and Intimate relationships Fanny Kemble
FK married Pierce M. Butler , a future plantation owner, at Christ Church in Philadelphia.
Earlier sources said she married in January.
Clinton, Catherine. Fanny Kemble’s Civil Wars. Simon and Schuster, 2000.
72
Marshall, Dorothy. Fanny Kemble. Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1977.
104
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Adey, Lionel, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 32. Gale Research, 1984.
177
Family and Intimate relationships Fanny Kemble
FK left the USA for England after signing a formal separation agreement from Pierce Butler which kept her apart from her daughters.
Marshall, Dorothy. Fanny Kemble. Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1977.
188, 195
Adey, Lionel, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 32. Gale Research, 1984.
177
Clinton, Catherine. Fanny Kemble’s Civil Wars. Simon and Schuster, 2000.
136
Family and Intimate relationships Fanny Kemble
FK 's husband served her with divorce papers this day; she was subsequently kept from her daughters for ten years.
Clinton, Catherine. Fanny Kemble’s Civil Wars. Simon and Schuster, 2000.
146
Marshall, Dorothy. Fanny Kemble. Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1977.
219
Adey, Lionel, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 32. Gale Research, 1984.
179
Family and Intimate relationships Fanny Kemble
FK 's former husband, Pierce M. Butler , died of malaria after the US Civil War.
Clinton, Catherine. Fanny Kemble’s Civil Wars. Simon and Schuster, 2000.
200
Literary responses Fanny Kemble
Pierce Butler published a response as Mr. Butler's Statement and included long quotations from FK 's letters.
Clinton, Catherine. Fanny Kemble’s Civil Wars. Simon and Schuster, 2000.
153
Literary Setting Claire Luckham
The metatheatrical first act takes place during rehearsals for William ShakespeareRomeo and Juliet (in which Kemble made her triumphant stage debut on 5 October 1829); in it Kemble's aunt Sarah Siddons instructs her niece on playing...
Material Conditions of Writing Fanny Kemble
After separating from Pierce Butler , FK borrowed money to travel to Italy, where she lived for a year with her sister, Adelaide (Kemble) Sartoris , and penned a travel journal.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Marshall, Dorothy. Fanny Kemble. Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1977.
200-1
Having written...
Publishing Fanny Kemble
When her husband sold her favourite horse, FK published a volume entitled Poems to buy him back.
Adey, Lionel, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 32. Gale Research, 1984.
176, 179
Marshall, Dorothy. Fanny Kemble. Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1977.
186-7
Textual Production Fanny Kemble
FK 's husband prevented the publication of An English Tragedy, a play she wrote this year about a man who cheated at cards.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Textual Production Fanny Kemble
In the third volume of this memoir, she recalls a visit to Newgate in 1831 with Elizabeth Fry , remarking about the prisoners, I felt broken-hearted for them, . . . and ashamed for us...

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