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    34 MARIA EDGEYfOIlTH.

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    • # # # # * * * # _; .. . ' She was not reserved of them in speaking of herself of her literary She seemed labors , but to she be i never her

    volunteered own headmuch speaking less in her own or heart . She . loved herself never , thought of her-Naturall self , care y d , anxious for herse to l know f , infinitel everythin y less g connected than she _did with for her those habits around of thoug her ht . h h

    and writing , I often reverted to her books , whicse said I remembered seeing t a alkin grea g t the deal abou little better t t weaknesses hem than , she she sj did of _> oke others herself of them clearl . "When with and she her trul saw usual she that frankness avoided I really dwelling enjoyed , while

    upon them , and could not bear to inflict y pain . "Peop y , le , " she said , " matters , so differently , that the very thing carried I should the be most of prou mortar d of , makes in his

    youth others , blush but his with famil shame y objected . Wedgewood to that fact being ' mentioned hod' in l Harry

    and Lucy ?" ********

    Scott 1 ' During she was her last t seen visit t to o the London same , I still vanta thoug e as ht am her id th unchanged e home circle . Like at g

    in _3-Cdgeworthstown _North , Audley . Street Our : last she meeting was there was at the her centre beloved of sister attraction ' s , Mrs . amongst Wilson ,

    wearied those of her highest and standin so her g anxious in literature sister . thoug The hot ht : room but she and , again the presensations like Scott , the gentlest , of lionsand suffered to admiration ! "When I going

    was she pressed my hand , and , whispered , ' We will make up for this was at Edge- , worthstown . " I certainly did not think of her I should illness see in her that no more desolate in this world .

    ment " I of have so much imagined that the was half good hour and great ; a brother and now sister—the brother monu- , we near were ly half at a Ed century geworthstown younger , than had been Maria called Edgeworth away — of before who not were b her . there She well when had

    usual written , yet , ( dictated had felt , ) little a note alarm to Dr . . Marsh In less , * than comp half laining an hour after eing this so letter as little was written room that , Mrs overlooked . Edgeworth her went flower into garden Miss stood Edgeworth bher ' s bedside bed-room became —the

    nor as alarmed to breath raise , and her it passing up was . onl After her the arm the form lapse und of er of her her a few h long ead minutes , , cherished turned , she y it and on felt her belove neither shoulder , d motion friend , so

    that she pressed ; to her y bosom ! She died in her eighty-third year , it may be truly said , full of years and honors . "

    On the 22 nd of May , 1849 , she was laid in the vault in the churchyard of Edgeworthstown , where so many of her family sleep

    their long last sleep . In slimming up Maria Edgeworth ' s character , the points which

    are most observable , are lofty principle , affection , and disinterestedness . Where she loved and trusted , her love and trust were perfect ,

    as in the case of her father , and the present Mrs . Edgeworth . ; to her brothers and sisters her attachment had in it something of

    maternal tenderness , and , throughout her long life , she exerted for them that influence which lier writings , character , and talent , had

    secured to her . She sympathised warmly in the pursuits and tastes of others , however widely they differed from hers , and free

    from tlie narrowing effects of vanity or pride , she made herself agreeable to those whose minds , and whose acquirements , were far

    inferior to her own .

    # _ISTow Sir Henry Marsh *

    34 Maria Edgeyfoilth.

    34 MARIA EDGEYfOIlTH .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1858, page 34, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091858/page/34/