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MARIA EDGEVfORTH. S3
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remembering " , Miss one Ed seventeen a th ' s collec clever tion . things of , autograp must have h le p been tters great was fati by gue , far . the most gewor
of in cen teresting all tury the . She remarkable I e used ver saw to bring peop , far me more ' box so her after than time box any , ' filled published a period the with most then the during correspondence of the more present than and
fifty years . _Sometimes , she would pick me ' It ou was t not the interesting mere chit- , chat fel then of t the it leave perio great d the , privilege but collection the op and inions to advantage ' amuse of clever me to peop read . le those , given letters to clever Some peop few le were . I
from almos the t a said leading without men of number her father . The ' time correspondence , to him . Sir of Walter many . ' s were years , I with had
Joanna Baillie , , Miss Seward , Mrs America . Hofiand , Mrs . Grant ; packets th said of foreign l
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or said there fraud ge , . ' These . She ' I , have had are tributes the never imlest looke paid blush d to round Mm on the by her room all fair the of che world royal ek , and , presen not poin gained ts t ti , tha t t round y beau trickery , tif she y , _,
tribute u though p the s frag they to her ile cannot lad husband y upo add n ' s to the the sofa tness attraction , where . " she of A breathed psley House her , last wi , surrounded conjuring by grea
after '' Mrs reading . Barbauld them ' s . letters She agreed were easy with and me kind , laug , and hing not I said while little so to sh Miss e add Ed ed geworth , " Yes and ,
she punctilious was very . " kind , and at the same time a pragmatic
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Maria Edgevforth. S3
MARIA EDGEVfORTH . S 3
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1858, page 33, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091858/page/33/
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