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  ''Call round my casks each object of desire'' all last winter: but it was a heavy drag too, and what signifies resolving _never_


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  MADEMOISELLE DE SCUDERY AND THE SAMEDIS Salons of the Noblesse--"The Illustrious Sappho"--Her Romances


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id: 19011
title: Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle
author: Shorter, Clement King
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  infinite pain to a number of people, including Mr. Bronte and Mr. Nicholls; and Mrs. Gaskell''s subsequent experiences had the effect of Miss Bronte twice visited Mrs. Gaskell in her Manchester home, first in Miss Mary Taylor wrote to Mrs. Gaskell the following letter from New Zealand upon receipt of the letters Charlotte Bronte had written to her brother and to her sisters ''MY DEAR ELLEN,--I hear from Mary Taylor that you are come home, and ''MY DEAR MISS NUSSEY,--Accept my sincere thanks for your kind letter. ''DEAR ELLEN,--I returned Mary Taylor''s letter to Hunsworth as soon as letter, dear Ellen, without thinking of the writing, for I have ''MY DEAR MISS BRONTE,--I shall tell you everything I can think of, ''You told me, my dear Miss Wooler, to write a long letter. ''MY DEAR ELLEN,--I have had a long kind letter from Miss Martineau


id: 17172
title: The Ethics of George Eliot''s Works
author: Brown, John Crombie
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  happiness" in humanity which expresses the true link between man and God. The practical doctrine that with them underlies all others is, "Love not human frailty that is not vitally base and self-seeking, in subtle power as asserting and illustrating the highest life of humanity, as a true Divine law of life, and its only true fulfilment; self-sacrifice, not in true fulfilment of that Christian life whose great law is love. faithful to the highest good which life shall place before her. loving heart turns again and again to the thought of human sorrow and father''s love and trust, but--her own deepest and truest life. joy of the love which is entwined with her life, or the turning away from the two great antagonistic principles of human life--self-pleasing and far higher instincts and aims of life cannot accept her as an aid and human self-love.


id: 26152
title: Characteristics of Women: Moral, Poetical, and Historical
author: Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)
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  female characters are not, in truth, in variety, in power, equal to his upon women with the spirit of humanity, wisdom, and deep love, has done perfectly good-natured, so temperately bright, so lady-like, it is ever A woman constituted like Portia, and placed in this age, The impression left upon our hearts and minds by the character of combining with the natural energy of her character, believing all things original story, Shakspeare has substituted the beautiful character of state, of her hapless love, is full of beauty, tenderness, and nature:-Shakspeare''s most beautiful and striking female characters in immediate of Imogen''s nature, that we feel as if we had known and loved her before If my feeling of Lady Macbeth''s character be just to the conception of been loved to excess by a man of Macbeth''s character; for it is the of our fancies."--See Characters of Shakspeare''s Plays.--To consider


id: 27620
title: Mrs. Hungerford Notable Women Authors of the Day
author: Black, Helen C.
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  You have resolved to accept a hospitable invitation from Mrs. Hungerford, the well-known author of _Molly Bawn_, etc., to visit her Another bright sunshiny morning opens, and shows old Cork at her best. arrive at a large, square, ivy-clad house, and ere there is time to Here the clever little author passes three hours every morning. years old, writing a ghost story which so frightened myself, that when Mrs. Hungerford married first when very young, but her husband died in such method and order, the writing included, there is little wonder Mrs. Hungerford does not often leave her pretty Irish home. The late Mrs. Hungerford came before the public at the early age of five and a half years later, leaving her with three little girls. seldom could Mrs. Hungerford be induced to leave her picturesque Irish she delighted to work with her own little implements, spade, trowel,


id: 30435
title: A Book of Sibyls: Miss Barbauld, Miss Edgeworth, Mrs Opie, Miss Austen
author: Ritchie, Anne Thackeray
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  first time Mrs. Barbauld (Miss Aikin she was then) saw something of real ''Life,'' which has brought a sense of ease and comfort to so many, Mrs. Barbauld has indeed deserved well of her country-people and should be Just that time three years before Mrs. Barbauld had lost her father, whom she dearly loved. Mrs. Barbauld, written to Miss Edgeworth about this time, declining to One may acknowledge the great progress which people have made since Mrs. Barbauld''s day in the practice of writing prose and poetry, in the art Years after, Edgeworth, writing to console Mrs. Day upon her Mr. Edgeworth quotes his friend''s reproof to Mrs. Day, who was fond of Maria Edgeworth was now about thirty years of age, at a time of life Miss Edgeworth desires me as a man of business to write to Mrs.


id: 25789
title: Emily Brontë
author: Robinson, A. Mary F. (Agnes Mary Frances)
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  It was in the first year of the school that the little Brontë girls left Bearing the elder sisters'' fate in view, the authorities warned Mr. Brontë, and the two children came home to Haworth. Such is the home to which Emily Brontë clung with the passionate love of Miss Branwell took care that the girls should not lack more homely Miss Ellen Nussey is the only person living who knew Emily Brontë on prim, trim little body like pretty Anne, nor with Charlotte Brontë''s for Charlotte, not for Emily or Anne, they were only girls; their dreams "My sister Emily loved the moors," says Charlotte, writing of these days An interval of happiness to lonely Emily; Charlotte''s friend came to the Then Charlotte and Anne went back to Miss Wooler''s, and Emily, The year 1840 found Emily, Branwell, and Charlotte all at home together. morning, before Charlotte and Emily, having travelled night and day,


id: 15045
author: Piozzi, Hester Lynch
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  untimely death by drowning in North America, were a copy of Mrs. Piozzi''s "Travel Book" and a copy of Johnson''s "Lives of the Poets," from "Thraliana," on the alleged rupture between Johnson and Mrs. Piozzi, that I have re-cast or re-written the part of the Johnson used to give this account of the rise of Mr. Thrale''s father: ''He worked at six shillings a week for twenty years day when walking in the country to meet a fortune-hunting gipsy, Mrs. Johnson made the wench look at my hand, but soon repented of her intimacy between Dr. Johnson and Mrs. Thrale, in 1765, the lady was [Footnote 1: "Pray, Doctor, said a gentleman to Johnson, is Mr. Thrale a man of conversation, or is he only wise and silent?'' ''Why, "''Miss Burney,'' said Mrs. Thrale, laughing, ''you must take great care [Footnote 1: Madame D''Arblay reports Mrs. Thrale saying to Johnson at

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  Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (2nd ed.) (2 vols.) Edited with notes and Introductory Account of her life and writings


id: 377
title: Kansas Women in Literature
author: Barker, Nettie Garmer
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  Mary Vance Humphrey of Junction City, Kansas, has written a series of short stories on the property rights of women in Kansas, a subject that Mrs. Aplington is now working on a book on "Art-Museums of America" and The author of that versatile little book of short stories, "The Lower Williams, of Kansas City, Mo., Mrs. Jarrell has written an For four years, Mrs. Stockton has lived at St. Margaret''s, depending 1859, living in Missouri some years but most of the time in Kansas City, A wife and a mother first, a Kansas woman second, and an author third is work, Mrs. January still finds time to write many short poems. one of the faculty of Kansas University, is a writer of short stories Hale, Kansas City, is author of verse, short stories, and a Anna Carlson, Lindsborg; Mrs. Mary Riley, Kansas City; and Isabel Worrel


id: 2528
title: The Women of the French Salons
author: Mason, Amelia Gere
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  Salon--La Rochefoucauld-Talent as a Diplomatist--Comparison with Mme. De Maintenon--Her Literary Work--Sadness of her Last Days--Woman in Philosophy--Noted Salons of this Period--Character of Mme. Geoffrin--Her devoted friends through life, unable to live apart, or pass a day _Mme. de Sable--Her Worldly Life--Her Retreat--Her Friends--Pascal--The Princesse Palatine had charmed an earlier generation, and where Mme. Duplessis Guenegaud, a woman of brilliant intellect, heroic courage, The curtain falls upon this little world which the magical pen of Mme. de Sevigne has made us know so well. Political Power--Great Influence of Women--Salons Defined Literary President Henault, the life-long friend of Mme. du Deffand, whose light "She led him a life a little hard," said Mme. de Graffigny, after Mme. de Graffigny is known mainly as a woman of letters whose life had The life of Mme. de Stael was in the world. "To love what is great," said Mme. Necker "is almost to be


id: 6854
title: Anne Bradstreet and Her Time
author: Campbell, Helen
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  of chroniclers: "By the time I was four years old I read English their way to New England and helped to make sad thought still more heart be "sett upon God." But Simon Bradstreet waited, like England, there is little doubt that Anne Bradstreet''s mind, of long and silent musing on the new life awaiting them, holds the stores held little reminder of holiday time in Old England, reminiscence of old days, dear to the heart of Anne Bradstreet, in the fact that old times were by no means better than the new. passed over from Old England to the New, and as such faith means of daily life, the pattern taking on new aspects as the days went thought there can be no better water in the world." New Englanders was able after a year or two of New England life to write: England that Anne Bradstreet did to the New.


id: 11549
title: The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss
author: Prentiss, George Lewis
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  a darling little wife, and write me loving words in your next letter. that you may be the beloved of the Lord and rest in safety by Him. The early years of Mrs. Prentiss'' married life were in various ways which I said something like this: Mamma knows a dear little boy who was summer of 1865, having lived away from New York, I saw little of Mrs. Prentiss, but I have a special remembrance of one little visit you made But, as I said the other day, if at any time you feel a little Think of that, dear, when you remember how I loved you in Mrs. G.''s little parlor! God for His long years of discipline, but very likely life did not look _Friday._--We began this day by going at ten A.M. to the funeral of Mrs. W.''s poor little baby, and the first words papa read, "It is better


id: 6705
title: Mrs. Shelley
author: Rossetti, Lucy Madox Brown
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  This book was in the publishers'' hands before the appearance of Mrs. Marshall''s _Life of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley_, and I have had The daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft and Godwin, the wife of Shelley: on Shelley; Harriet naturally feels Mary most at fault, and does not About this time Godwin wrote a letter concerning Mary''s education to passed the time delightfully, Shelley reading Mary Wollstonecraft''s With Shelley and Mary''s return to England their troubles naturally Mary writes, "Shelley passes the morning with Harriet, who is in a At one time Godwin, Shelley, and Mary tried to induce Mrs. Knapp to did Mary, no less than Shelley, make use of that happy reading-time of She writes to Shelley and Mary that Mrs. Godwin--mamma she A third time, on March 11, 1818, Shelley, Mary, and Claire are on the Neither does Mary consider that the time has come to write Shelley''s


id: 34613
title: Woman''s Work in English Fiction, from the Restoration to the Mid-Victorian Period
author: Whitmore, Clara Helen
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  Like Mrs. Stowe''s novel it had a strong moral influence, as it years, so that Mrs. Behn''s novels, plays, and poems fell into disrepute. Mrs. Manley had been well trained to write a book like the _New The fashion for weeping heroines was at its height, when, in 1761, Mrs. Francis Sheridan published _The Memoirs of Miss Sidney Biddulph_. life." It was so pathetic a story that Dr. Johnson doubted if Mrs. Sheridan had a right to make her characters suffer so much, and Charles did not belong to any known style of writing: stories of real life, like venerable old woman called Luckie Forbes, who lived not far from Mrs. Porter''s house, used to tell her of the wonderful deeds of William Three years later Mrs. Trollope published her strongest novel, _The Life Mary Brunton, and Mrs. Shelley wrote novels of the inner life.


id: 36641
title: Women Novelists of Queen Victoria''s Reign: A Book of Appreciations
author: Marshall, Emma
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  is the one only character in Miss Brontë''s little world who has a real fortune that the one man whom she knew in her life, whom her story With the exception of her powerful "Life of Charlotte Brontë," Mrs. Gaskell wrote only novels or short stories. woman whose love-story had been spoilt by the home authorities reverses inner life of man; and in 1848 she published a book called "The Night of a young man who has very little story to tell and does not know how her work is far more a study of character than the story of "Paul middle life that Mrs. Wood began to write; and her first work,--perhaps, Miss Manning was familiar; and there were other stories of country life, little cares and joys, so in the "Story of a Short Life" we have the "The Story of a Short Life" was not published in book form until four


id: 37955
title: The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume 1 (of 2)
author: Marshall, Julian, Mrs.
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  Mary''s son William born--List of books read by Shelley Mary--She begins to write it--Voyage of Shelley and Byron Letter from Mary--Shelley''s search for Harriet--He hears of Letters from Shelley to Mary--He hears from Lord Byron Byron comes to Pisa--Letter from Mary to Mrs. Shelley--Life at Pisa--Letters from Mary to Mrs. Gisborne THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY to further correspondence, in the course of which the new disciple, Mr. Percy Bysshe Shelley, gave Godwin a sketch of the events of his past life. Mary and Shelley walk to the shore of the lake and read the _Journal, Thursday, November 3_ (Mary).--Work; write to Shelley; read a year after this time both Clara''s journal and that of Shelley and Mary Three days after William''s death, Shelley, Mary, and Clare had left Rome


id: 37956
title: The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume 2 (of 2)
author: Marshall, Julian, Mrs.
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  to England--Letter from Mary to Mrs. Gisborne and Clare-1834 Godwin--Letters from Mary to Trelawny and to Mrs. Mary fails to write Shelley''s Life--Marriage of Sir 1847 Percy Shelley--Mary lives with her son and daughter-in-law-THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Within a day or two after this letter was written, Mary, with Jane "Mary," observed Shelley one day at Pisa, when Trelawny was present, DEAR MARY SHELLEY--Pardon my tardiness in writing, which from day to I requested you to let Lord Byron''s letter to Sir Timothy Shelley pass So, dear Trelawny, you remember still poor Mary Shelley; thank you for DEAR MARY--I received your letter the other day, and nothing gives me Dear Mary, I love women, and you know it, but my life in the present Life of Mary Shelley.


id: 36965
title: Harriet Martineau
author: Miller, Florence Fenwick
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  Martineau herself had told, and leaves the later work of the life "The Knoll" during the later years of Miss Martineau''s life. "My life has had no spring," wrote Harriet Martineau, sadly; yet there in particular disagreed with her; but it was held essential by Mrs. Martineau that children should eat bread and milk, and for years poor what Harriet Martineau knew and felt of love, we must look elsewhere Harriet Martineau''s first attempt to write for publication was made in The work which Harriet Martineau spent her whole life in It was in this home that Harriet Martineau did all the work that has reader at the present day of Harriet Martineau''s history of the years Five times in her life did Harriet Martineau write and publish that Such was Harriet Martineau''s work for the year 1861; and thus could In the latter part of the year 1862, Harriet Martineau wrote a paper


id: 47643
title: Mary Lamb
author: Gilchrist, Anne (Anne Burrows)
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  Mary was the elder by ten years; and there is but little to tell of the One little sister Elizabeth, who came when Mary was four years Book_, where, meeting the eyes of Charles and Mary Lamb, it awakened time, have given her gentle spirit pain!--and the day, my friend, I Death of the Father.--Mary comes Home to live.--A Removal.--First Death of the Father.--Mary comes Home to live.--A Removal.--First these and many more frequented the home of Charles and Mary Lamb in "Your letter," writes Mary, "which contained the news of Coleridge''s "[Mary] says you saw her writings about the other day, and she wishes as Charles tells Manning in a letter written at the end of the year at St. Andrew''s, Holborn (May-Day morning, 1808), Dr. and Mrs. Stoddart and Charles and Mary Lamb the chief, perhaps the only guests. "''I wish the good old times would come again,'' she said; ''when we were


id: 38596
title: Notable Women Authors of the Day: Biographical Sketches
author: Black, Helen C.
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  book" gave her a whole year''s hard work to write, and she thinks it is old-fashioned bookcase contains the works of her favourite authors. The author''s latest work--a story of seaside life, and her twenty-ninth The latter book is more on the lines of "Mr. Smith" than any of Mrs. Walford''s recent works of fiction, and proved a great success in work on the old oak knee-hole writing-table beyond a single blank sheet The great success which attended these two books justified Mrs. Alexander''s further efforts. "He is at school now," says Mrs. Reeves, "and the house is like a tomb to look like new." "And yet," says Mrs. Reeves plaintively, "people call Mrs. Lovett Cameron''s home, a cheerful-looking little house, gay with wrote her first book, "Won by Waiting," a story of home life in France "Amongst other books," says Mrs. Houstoun, "I look back with


id: 54569
title: Jane Austen and Her Country-house Comedy
author: Helm, W. H. (William Henry)
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  attraction." Jane Austen had never read such an explanation of love as We cannot imagine that Jane Austen could ever have written to any man, Mrs. Austen had said, and Jane agreed with her, that Anna had allowed a Mrs. Austen had been reading _Pride and Prejudice_ aloud to Jane and The life of Jane Austen, whose humour the author of the _Plymley Catherine''s extraordinary fears concerning his father''s conduct to Mrs. Tilney we may discover something of Jane''s view of the general little set mankind" is as true of the characters in Jane Austen''s books Dr. Whately on Jane Austen--"Moral lessons" of her novels--Charge of Dr. Whately on Jane Austen--"Moral lessons" of her novels--Charge of Admirable as Jane Austen''s pictures of country life in house and garden the other day that Jane Austen''s novels are merely "memorials," books W., on text of Jane Austen''s novels, 83


