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[Illustration: Fanny Kemble]


RECORDS OF A GIRLHOOD
BY
FRANCES ANN KEMBLE
_SECOND EDITION._
[Illustration]
NEW YORK
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
1880.


COPYRIGHT, 1879,
BY
HENRY HOLT & CO.

JOHN A. GRAY, Agent,
TYPE-SETTING MACHINERY,
16 & 18 JACOB STREET,
NEW YORK.


PREFATORY NOTE.

Considerable portions of this work originally appeared in the _Atlantic
Monthly_, but there is added to these a large amount of new matter not
hitherto published, and the whole work has been thoroughly revised.


RECORDS OF A GIRLHOOD.
CHAPTER I.

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 expense, I have thought that my own
gossip about myself may be as acceptable to it as gossip about me
written by another.
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