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MISS CORNELIA KNIGHT. 159
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six days , landed at Great Yarmouth . Truly , tlie enterprising travellers of those days earned their knowledge at sufficient cost _Tby land
and sea ! Lord Nelson , himself a Norfolk hero was received with great honors ; after which the whole party went to London , which
Cornelia Knight found rather dreary after her long absence . " It was in vain that I tried to feel at home in my own country ; but
what surprised me most of all was the general cry of poverty , distressand embarrassment . I had been accustomed to see foreign
nations , look up to England as the most flourishing and potent of countriesand to regard it as the laurel-crowned islandthe
safeguard of , Europe ; and now that I -was arrived in this , highly favored land , I heard nothing but complaints of the impossibility
of going * on any longer , with wishes for peace , See ., & e . Then the darkness and the shortness of the days seemed so strange . ' How
Andrea do you Plaudi like London . ' I dare ? ' I said Madame one day / he to answered my old Italian l that I friend shall say
think it a very fine city , when , it comes to be daylig , ht . ' , He had heard of northern countries wherein the middle of winter , there
was no daylight for weeks together , , and he fancied that was the case _ in London . "
"We now come to the point in Cornelia Knight's life in which she became intimately mixed up in the affairs of our Royal Family .
The few intervening years are summed u ]> _thusVy her editor : "In England ( being about forty-two years of age when she returned , )
she foun , d many friends with whom she had first become acquainted on the Continentand the circle was soon widenedincluding in it
some of the most , distinguished persons of the age . , In this society she did not move merely on sufferance . Miss Knight enjoyed at
this time considerable reputation as a lady of extensive learning and manifold accomplishments . She had written some books ,
which and she , being was celebrated in the statel for y her classical extensive style acquaintance , hit the taste with of the ancient age ,
and modern languages . Being a person of high principle , of a blameless lifeand altogether a gentlewomanit was not strange
, , that , possessing also those intellectual gifts , and having numerous influential friendsshe should have recommended herself , or been
recommended of land by others , her , to friends the favorable was Mr notice . Pitt of whose the royal inion famil it y EngAmong op
. , was that the education of the young Princess Charlotte of Wales could "be entrusted to no fitter person . Other arrangements were
made for the early instruction of the princess , but Miss Knight had been marked out for a court life , and , in the latter end of 1805 , she
became one of the attachees of Queen Charlotte , and took up her residence at Windsor .
_"It was in March of that year , that Lady Aylesbury communicated to her the queen ' s wishes . ' Her Majesty , ' she writes , * had been
pleased to express a desire that I should be attached to her person
Miss Cornelia Knight. 159
MISS CORNELIA KNIGHT . 159
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1861, page 159, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111861/page/15/
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