author - "Frances Ann Kemble"

A Few Years Ago I Received From A Friend To Whom They Had Been Addressed A Collection Of My Own Letters, Written During A Period Of Forty Years, And Amounting To Thousands--A History Of My Life. The Passion For Universal History (_I.E._ Any And Every Body's Story) Nowadays Seems To Render Any Thing In The Shape Of Personal Recollections Good Enough To Be Printed And Read; And As The Public Appetite For Gossip Appears To Be Insatiable, And Is Not Unlikely Some Time Or Other To Be Gratified At My

A Few Years Ago I Received From A Friend To Whom They Had Been Addressed A Collection Of My Own Letters, Written During A Period Of Forty Years, And Amounting To Thousands--A History Of My Life. The Passion For Universal History (_I.E._ Any And Every Body's Story) Nowadays Seems To Render Any Thing In The Shape Of Personal Recollections Good Enough To Be Printed And Read; And As The Public Appetite For Gossip Appears To Be Insatiable, And Is Not Unlikely Some Time Or Other To Be Gratified At My