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MARIA EDGEWORTH. 31
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Amokgst The Changes Which Have Taken Pla...
Gladly would we give some more extracts from these interesting volumes , but we must hasten towards the close of our sketch of its
author . Though now far advanced in the vale of years , the following
description of a ' visit to Edgeworthstown , ' from the pen of the amiable friend _, William Howitt _, shews that ' her eye was not dim , nor her
natural strength abated / Here " Having I found got such cordial a luncheon reception as the inn In the afforded true , I irit walked of Irish up to hosp the itality hall .
Mrs . Edgeworth a very was anxious that I should . at once transfer sp myself from tlie in village inn lish to her house amp of l the e mansion pretensions , where there I found was as the much ladies abundance sitting in as
large Mrs any . Ed and Eng geworth handsome , Miss library E ., an , same busy d Mrs writing . Francis letters , of E . Miss , . the These wife of ladie the s con ' _Frani sisted : ' of of
at Miss her Ed apparent geworth ' age s tale , thoug . M h y she first must impression in fact stand now Edgeworth nearly , if was not surprise quite , in of she is smalland
at at fir the st head had of British air of authors but point thisin a years few . minutes In person quite vanished , and
with expect it from at least an her the writings impression reserve a certain , of a staidness score , of ye and ars sense in appearance of , propriety . One . All would , the is lihted with the most affable
humour propriety and is th a genuine , but the love gravity of joke and soon lively g conversation up . When I entered . the two , other ladies were writing at the library tableMiss Edgeworth at a
small table near the fire . , into '' The the grounds library is a large two sides room supported We were by soon a row engaged of pillars in , animated so as to give conver views
on . new sation novel on many of Miss literary Bremer topics which and had per been sons , forwarded and Miss b E . me hande from d the me the author last y
inscri requesting ption me of the to place copy a to written , herself translation . To do this under she Miss put Bremer into my ' s autograp hand the h , _, to her bSir Walter Scott
markable silver " She pen then woman which volu had nteered speedil been to presented enveloped shew me in the bonnet garden y and and shawl grounds led ; the . and way this with
re-, y , the all the footpath lightness , and and beneath activity the trees 1780 of youth , I observe . * * d an _JSTot urn far p from laced the on house a pedestal , near ,
out and _"We some inscribed then to geraniums — went little " To int secluded that _Hostoba o the day garden , garden , thoug . . " h which Miss so late E Mrs . sai as . d Fr September th ancis at she tol had . d me In been our th setting round had
we laid came out for her a and her children , and , where they had built a little summer ey house of heath . ,
# # # # # # * at " dinner On our and retur during n to the the house evening we were we j had oined a deal by Mr of . talk Francis of poetry Edgeworth and poets , and .
languages for has The the been ladies introduction , , and as well literature as of Mr Miss . of in E . supposing , general expressed _Brenier , . ' s that They work their William s had , great and fallen of obli and a gation into taste Mary the for to Mrs the Howitt error . northern Howitt which were ,
brother and very sister common instead , of husband and wife . * * * * About ten o ' clock , my a statel short y old but servant agreeable conducted visit to Miss me to Edgeworth the inn , with . " a lantern , and thus ended '
6 Orlandino 9 a tale for * The Little Library , ' of the Messrs . she Chambers would , was no , t her again last work write . , she When used asked playfull subsequentl y to say , w she hethe wa r s
' mending her pen / which led one or two of her friends to conjecture :
Maria Edgeworth. 31
MARIA EDGEWORTH . 31
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1858, page 31, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091858/page/31/
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