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i EXHIBITIONS OF FEMALE ARTISTS. 125
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of eye the is widow a littl is e expressive exaggerated of , deep which suffering has a , disagreeable but the turn effect of the . Bede
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that Fish th erwoman ey must be Mendin just about g Nets to beg " is in much a pas better de deux the . Her old woman " ' s face and attitude displaying marked character , though the
, flesh One tin of ts the are few rather fi mudd subjects y . claiming to be of importance
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_sa confiding reliance which seems to show that she is now
I Exhibitions Of Female Artists. 125
i EXHIBITIONS OF FEMALE ARTISTS . 125
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1864, page 125, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041864/page/53/
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