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    32 MARIA EDGEWORTH.

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    that she might be _engaged iri something' intended for posthumous publication , but since her death , nothing bearing her name has been

    given to the world . The last ' notice' of her which we shall present to our readers ,

    appeared in the Art Journal , of 1849 ; it describes a visit paid her her by Mrs personal . S . C _friend Hall . , who A portion , as -well of as thi being s ' descri her ption -warm , had admirer previousl , was y

    formed matter for some of the most agreeable pages of Mrs . Hall ' s most agreeable ' sketches . ' . _

    and " the The dwelling demesne house of Edgeworthstown large and commodious , is judiciousl . We y and drove abundantl up the y avenue plante at d ,

    feel evening the cold ; it was nose cheering of the house to see -dog lights thrust sparkle into throug our hands h the , windows as an earnes , and t to of and welcome it was ; it a was high p privilege leasant to to receive meet Miss the warm Edgeworth greeting in the of Mrs library . Ed , the wor very th ,

    f room or Irelan in which d , and had have been so written largely the promoted immortal the works truest , that welfare redeemed of the a character human kind and rejoiced . " We had to find not her seen in her nothing for some changed years , ; except her voice for a as few lig brief ht and moments happy , ,

    tenance and as full as full of gentle of goodness mirth , and her loving eyes as kind bri ness ght , and as they truthful had , ever and been her . counthat " The libraries library are at in Ed general geworthstown . It is , large is not the mcious reserve and d lofty and solitary well-stored room

    with books , and embellished with those most , valuable , of all classes ; of prints , its the breadth suggestive ; the . It addition is also is picturesque _suj ) ported , having by square been p added illars , to and , so the as to beautiful increase

    lawn seen through the windows , embellished and varied by clumps of trees judiciousl reading table in _tlie writing y p centre lanted or , , is working imparts the rall much y while ing point cheerfulness Miss for E . the onl family to anxious the , exterior who on group one . point An around oblong that it ,

    all in the , house should , do exactl , y as they like , , without y reference to her , , sits upon quietl which y and abstractedl lies Sir W y . Scott in her ' s p own en , g peculiar iven to corner her by , on him the when sofa ; in her Ireland desk , ,

    that placed same before corner her upon and a quaint that little table table she , as has unassuming written nearl as possible all that . has In delighted the world , , the upon novels that moved , Sir Walter Scott 'to y do for

    Scotthe land elevated , what Miss sensibilities E . had done and sound for Ireland morality , ' the of work maturer s in which life , she to a had level broug with ht the and comprehension order , the playthings of childhood of the , nursery and rendered ; knowledge and virtue , care

    in " the I thoug morning ht , myself but , ear peculiarl ly as it y was good , Miss to be Ed up geworth and about had at _iDreceded half-past me seven , and

    pair a She table was of glove heaped passionatel s too with small y earl fond for y roses any of flowers , hand upon but , whi she hers ch liked the , told dew to who grow was was them still the moist earl and y , to florist and give a .

    g them always ift from ; one by Miss each of the Edgeworth plate most on love the . breakfast d There and cherished was table a rose , and of or my if a she bouquet garden saw my ' s of rose bouquet her bushes arrang faded , ing is a , ,

    from she was Maria sure Edgeworth to tap at my , then door between with a fresh seventy one and before eighty dinner , to . me And ! These this , great small talents attentions are enter regarded the heart _periods and like remain great there mountain , when s great distant services coldand and

    ungenial " Such . of the servants as were Protestants joined in famil , y worshi , p , , and tures readthe commencement of the

    heard a portion of the Scrip , hallowing

    32 Maria Edgeworth.

    32 MARIA EDGEWORTH .

• Citation
  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1858, page 32, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091858/page/32/