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    THE DEATH OF MRS. JAMESON. 141

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    It Is No Common Loss Which, We Have This...

    But it is not on these tilings that we would dwell here . We have another and a nobler -tribute to pay to her nienioiy who is

    fluential gone from a _arnong most valuable _\ is . Hers life was to the , as social it seemed interests to us of , Eng a most land , in — -

    to the j , oint interests of men and women , and to the growth of her own sex in all that is good .

    Many of those who acknowledged her intellectual power , did not recognise how much habitual thought she gave to social questions .

    would Any one see who scatt sho ered uld on examin almost e her writing's some with re this flection intention some , every page

    , , allusion , which show how keen were her perceptions in regard to the moral life ; and of late years she gave public expression to

    her opinions about the position , education , and utilitarian training of -womenwith an openness and moral courage never to be

    sufficiently admired , . She did not compromise herself by adherence to the views of any particular party ; her age , her high social

    reputation , her peculiarly balanced mind , kept her as it were aloof and in a sphere apart ; yet Mrs . Jameson was ever the first to come

    forward in support of any measure she individually approved . When an effort was made some years ago to pass a bill through

    her parliament name was , securing the first to married attached women of all the the use of their thousands own earnings , many upon

    the various petitions . Pier two lectures on " Sisters of Charity at Home and Abroad" and the " Communion of Labor " were read

    in person to a very large drawing-room audience , and contain more sound thought , fearlessly expressed , than anything that has

    appeared elsewhere on woman's life and labor . The earnest eloquence of her " Letter to Lord John Russell , " prefixed to the last

    edition of these lectures , will touch many hearts to the quick , now from that the the calm hand hei which hts of penned iC sixty it years is , cold " with in a death force . and She a sp power eaks

    ¦ which will echo long g amidst us . Where shall we find such another advocate ? Where shall we find such another heart ; one so just , so

    gentle ; so sympathetic with men , yet so brave for women ; so and affectionate for all ?

    generous By nature eminently domestic and womanly , the story of Mrs . Jameson ' s outward lifeso far as it concerns or interests the public

    is but a slight thread on , which to hang the record of her great gifts , and virtuesShe was of Irish extractionand was the eldest

    daug many hter of Mr . . Murphy , painter in ordinary , to the Princess Charlottean artist well known during the earlier years of the

    present century , . Her vivid temperament and warm feelings told of Ireland to the last ; they made her the light of the social circle ,

    and prompted the mispaaing- sympathy which she bestowed on all around her . As a young woman she occupied the post of governess

    in two or three families of distinction , and to the last she used occasionallto speak of the young girls who had been her pupils

    particularly y of one who had died early . She never forgot what ,

    she had loved .

    The Death Of Mrs. Jameson. 141

    THE DEATH OF MRS . JAMESON . 141

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1860, page 141, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041860/page/69/