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BIANCA MXLESI MOJON. 85
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About This Time Madame Mojon Lost Her Mo...
livresafterward extended to 2000 livres . But she found verylittle deli princess ght , disposition / , hearing and promised to of hel this p an bount wi annual th , y effectual , blossoms expressed stipend charity . that herself "We , seldom thoug will " ravished look h ri a for certain with into it , "
s fruit aid Bianca ; we shall , " but see promises how it will are fare hetic with these the princess ! " "Alas ' pen promises ! " says
Souvestre , " the doubt was prop ; s never Bianca ripened had . " soon a second little sonand she devoted herself to
the training of her children . She translated , for them a " Method of Learning to Read , " which the was text printed She also in 1829 . A friend from drew time
to the time figures other which elementary illustrate books ;—as . , the " First published Lessons , for a Child from Four , to Five Years old "—apropos of which Manzoni called translatiof
her Barbauld the " ' s mother "Hymns of in her Prose country series ; " also , " of likewise " Advice Miss Ed a to gworth Mothers on " books from Mrs the for .
Eng children lish , . and As soon all the as she first found a book useful to her own ' s boys , her benevolence led her to desire that others should profit by it
likewise . Her letters are full of regrets for the little attention paid to the education of children in Italand of entreaties to her friends
to second her efforts in diffusing y good ; books and good methods of instructionShe did not lain of her isolation in Genoa . " It
is live a great in oneself happ . and iness to , " be she united comp writes in to heart Madame with all Verri the , good "to who be able dwell to
upon announcement the earth , of . a A work fine which passage tends in to a contemporary advance civilization book , or makes the
, my even hear at a t beat distance and , kindles are a constant my enthusiasm source of . deli of Moreover g her ht to life me , my . the " friends death ,
of She her now eldest experienced child . Another the greatest son was sorrow soon after born — to her , but heartThis
he " did not fill the void in the mother ' s . " disappointto ment _thfc and education grief did of not the , children however , which check remained the ardor to of her her . devotion In this
task she obtained the inestimable co-operation of a good governess —Mademoiselle Julie Rosselet , who perfectly comprehended her , of
and to the last was the confidante of her hopes , and the assuager letter her sorrows from . Mademoiselle M . Souvestr Rosselet e has g , iven beautifull , in a y note illustrative , the followin of the g
characters "I must of speak employer of Madame and emp Mojon loyed s : — conduct towards me , for this
to good me friend and never made told everyone anyone believe that / that owed she everything had great to obli her . gations It is
what , she did for me that , perhaps , best characterizes her . I came to Genoa simply as a child meals " s nurse with ( bonne the other _. d * enfant domestics ) * During in the the
first kitchen winter . In J the took following my May , on our return from a journey to MilanMadame Mojon told the Doctor that I was worthy to become
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Bianca Mxlesi Mojon. 85
BIANCA MXLESI _MOJON . 85
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1861, page 85, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041861/page/13/
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