WorkFrances Anne Kemble (Fanny)

“Lines on a Sleeping Child" ["Oh child! who to this evil world art come"], in Francis the First. A tragedy in five acts. With other poetical pieces”

"Lines on a Sleeping Child" ["Oh child! who to this evil world art come"], in Francis the First. A tragedy in five acts. With other poetical pieces (New York: Peabody, 1833) Inferred

Frances Anne Kemble (Fanny) (1809–1893) · New York: Peabody, 1833

InferredFuller refers to "the lines on a Sleeping Child" by Mrs Butler (Fanny Kemble); Hudspeth identified the opening "Oh child! Fuller offers critical evaluation of the poem and uses her knowledge of it to assess Kemble's character.

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1835Francis the First (poem "Oh child! who to this evil world art come")Attested
“I could hardly believe that she who could write the lines on a Sleeping Child... could have given rise to all the foolish talk I heard at Newport.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton, January 5, 1835
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Letter to Almira P. Barlow

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“I could hardly believe that she who could write the lines on a Sleeping Child (not that I like them, but they bespeak a spirit deeply-stirred,) could have given rise to all the foolish talk I heard at Newport.”

Fuller, Margaret. "To Almira P. Barlow, 5 January 1835." In The Letters of Margaret Fuller, Vol. I: 1817–1838, edited by Robert N. Hudspeth, 217. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.

Inferred Fuller refers to "the lines on a Sleeping Child" by Mrs Butler (Fanny Kemble); Hudspeth identified the opening "Oh child! Fuller offers critical evaluation of the poem and uses her knowledge of it to assess Kemble's character.

Fuller refers to "the lines on a Sleeping Child" by Mrs Butler (Fanny Kemble); Hudspeth identified the opening "Oh child!