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232 CAROLINE FRANCES CORNWALLIS.
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publicity pro probabl . y contributed to induce her to preserve her longer incognito iving made when licit it permission necessary the success to for gain which the fact their her of accep works her tance authorshi had ; attained for p while to no be
re g vealed exp after her death . she even then destroyed most of what nearly the mig publication ht have everything furnished of of a portion a materials private , of nature for her a correspondence biograp has been hy , onl omitted y . sanctioning From so that this
, history the work than which a record has just of mental appeared development * contains ; less and as a personal this can
very be so form much of better utterance revealed giving by hers an individuality elf than by shall any to the other portrait —the to
let whi from ch this , her is brief lost letters , memoir in , a change only consist linking of p as hraseology " various them much together as — possible we of the by of imperfect prefer so _extracts much
n record arrative which as can was be all gleaned that she from would allow parts to be made public . * Selections from the Letters of Caroline Frances Cornwallis _. London : I and Paternoster 1864
_Triibner Co ., Row . .
232 Caroline Frances Cornwallis.
232 CAROLINE FRANCES CORNWALLIS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1864, page 232, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061864/page/16/
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