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CAROLINE FBANCES COBNWALLIS. 233
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I of Descended Calaisand from Comptroller Sir Thomas of the C Hoyal ornwallis Household , who was in Treasurer the days
I of Queen , Mary , Caroline Frances Cornwallis was the last 1 representative of the younger branch of that famil . Her
j father , who was rector of Wittersham and Elam in y Kent married Marythe daughter of Quarles HarrisEsqbwhom ,
I he had two daug , hters , the youngest , Caroline , , having ., y - been I born Jul 12 th 1786 . The onlrecord of her earliest
is the following y , description of y her when seven years years old i extracted from her mother ' s journal . ,
I ] generous " Her temper as it is warm is irritable ; subject to to the sudden highest starts degree of pettishnesg , and affectionate and then and the j of most her penitent imperfections of human and beings the most , entertaining heartdesire the to most . humble them , consciousness for which
| purpose she at times , exerts a resolution y far beyond her conquer years . Her , fancy is I | reg brilliant ion of , and the her air for genius subjects refined on , which tinctured to exert with romance itself . Her , and memory roving into strong the ,
| the and medium extremely of quick amusem , capable ent , but of comprehending tortured by any anything application offered to her what throug is dry h most and unadorned wonderfull . She as reads well as English most as well as any of woman 12 can and do , writes takes young persons years
great delight in it y . , Her taste for drawing is very greatand she , executes reads everything French she also chooses prettil , and manages though water she onl -colours Imows very a , few dexterousl words y . but She it
is impossible to attract very her attention y , to this language y except by fairy ; tales . knows She is entirel it almost y intimat all by . e heart with ; Shakespeare her dolls all ' s represent Midsumm fairies er Ni , g and ht's are Dream valuable , and of
only as they are to perform parts she destines them for . Plays all kinds different enchant her characters ; she comprehends with uncommon the vivacity plot , humour and sp , irit & . c , She and is enters all feeling into _;
of her distress health even of any suffers kind . by Trembling a tale of woe ly , alive and she to p does leasure not and overcom pain e of a every sight honour kind , she truth possesses and heroic uncommon virtue courage But her to strongest endure pain characteristi and a great c is her sense love of
she for her could , father speak , , which . It is exceeds a passion everything . —a preference I ever which saw , and distinguishes has been ever itself since in everything she says and does ; and though she loves me with extreme
attitudes affection , , it clean is quite to a of degree a different , and kind hand . y She in all is she delicat attempts e in her ; spri language ghtly , and but unequalrunning to extremes whichwithout carewould prove hysterical .
for Such her is , being the dear but but too dangerous sensible that child she , I has have all trained those , qualities thus far , which and I tremble tend to
the disquiet , of tlie owner . " She was accustomed from earliest childhood to amuse herself
continued with literary until composition she was about , a practice thirteen which she old seems and to then have to
have abandoned till she resumed it to more years purpose , in after plans of life histories . Her ma youthfu , poetry and l drawings , efforts commentaries comprised and , manifesting and , it is essay said s , , a whole illustrated most volumes livel b y y
Imagination , ps , developed with , extraordinary method and completeness ; the " History" of the imaginary " Kingdom of VOL . XIII . K
Caroline Fbances Cobnwallis. 233
CAROLINE FBANCES COBNWALLIS . 233
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1864, page 233, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061864/page/17/
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