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240 , CAROLINE FRANCES COBNWALLIS.
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health . Her constant friend Sismondi had put at her disposal a house d of that his at she Pescia should , about travel 20 in miles from with Pisa , Mr and . Frere it was . company
This arrange scheme turned her attention earnestly to a subject to which portunit she had given that a would little thoug be afforded ht long by before a residence , for feeling in a the Roman
op-Catholic y country , to become acquainted , with the doctrines and practices were countenanced of that church b , earl she felt Christian anxious tradition to know and how therefore far they
enquired of all the clergymen y y she knew what was , the testimony had of the never fathers even upon heard this of subject the existence . She found of these , however venerable , that one
authorities ; another had heard the term used , but knew nothing abstruse beyond ; old no - one world had lore ever and dreamed her onl of actuall resource y reading therefore such if y
she would , gain any information ; upon the point , , was to get , it poring for herself over , by dusty spending tomes her of mornings earldivinit at the and British taking Museum notes ,
from every prominent church writer y of the y firs , t three centuries . Eut the thought of the enjoyment in store for her supported
her so well through all the fatigues of preparation that she wrote to Miss Frere :
" If it can afford you satisfaction to think of a creature very happy , you pects may think for me of me fancy ; indeed it possible , there tha seems t all should too much he realized good in ; even present the journey pros- ,
with all its fatigues and inconveniences—and they are not a small evil to one amuseme in my state nt and of health instruction —appears in store in brig for me pers . " pective when I think of all the
Her letters from Italy give lively sketches of Italian life and morals manners and , which thoroug are hl presented frivolous in no pursuits very pleasing seeming lig the ht ; rule lax
among both ladies and y gentlemen , and their conversation turning entirelon dressor birthsdeathsand marriages .
The lower classes y , quick-witted , , good , -humoured , , and obliging , were far more agreeable to her ; and those with whom she
came more immediately in contact grew so much attached to ture her , that was quit the e leave pathetic -taking . During , when the her time stay cam which e for extended her depar for
a period , of above a year , she devoted some , attention to mineralogy , for the study of which the district afforded peculiar
facilities came in , her and way also ; and to some of course medical her books extensive which acquirements by chance excited no little wonder in a country where female education
was so far below even "what was attained in England . One gentleman be contented rem to arked stay at to hom her e that and _" have English fewer husbands caprices may , if their well
wives are capable of amusing their evenings in so many dif- I
240 , Caroline Frances Cobnwallis.
240 , CAROLINE FRANCES COBNWALLIS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1864, page 240, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061864/page/24/
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