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 194
to Paris. Mrs. Opie occupied an entresol in the Hotel de la Paix, and a servant, v^^ith some-thing of the appearance of a sobered-down soldier in dress and deportment, waited inthe anteroom of the Quaker dame to announce her visitors. Singularly enough, Mrs.Opie was never more at home than in… … THE DWELLING OF AMELIA OPIE AT NOUWICH. The last time Mrs. Opie visited London was to see the Great Exhibition in 1851.There she was wheeled about in a garden chair. She retained much of her originalfreshness of form and mind, and was cheerful and chatty. In the brief conversationI had with her,…
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