Frances Anne Kemble was an actress, novelist, and poet; daughter of actor, Charles Kemble. Her stage name was Fanny Kemble or Miss Kemble. Charles Follen was a German poet and patriot, who later moved to the United States and became the first professor of German at Harvard University, a Unitarian minister, and a radical abolitionist. Augusta Trelawny was a friend of Mary Shelley and wife of Edward John Trelawny (married 1846).