A book of memories of great men and women of the age, from personal acquaintance (1877)
Hall, S. C. (Samuel Carter), 1800-1889, St. John, Cynthia Morgan, 1852-1919. fmo, Wordsworth Collection · London, Virtue · leaf 147
rvel at the enormous popularity her romances achieved. They wouldfind few readers now; but, as I have elsewhere observed, fifty or sixty years ago,when a woman wrote a book she became an idol; common-place was magnified intogenius; and all the novel readers in England—they were as tens then to… … THE COTTAGE Or MBS. POETEE AT ESHBE. Their mother was a native of Durham—a thorough lady in all respects. Theirfather was an Irish gentleman of good family, and had been an officer in the Ennis-killen Dragoons. The mother became a widow not long after her marriage, andresided in Edinburgh, chiefly…
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