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MISS CORNELIA KNIGHT. 153
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, sp , ideas young of woman social , worked order were well , so and strict made that her when own gowns he wanted ! Johnson his cat 's
he went to fetch her himself , refusing , to send a servant , because it was not good to employ human beings in the service of
animals ! would Of Gainsboroug not onlhave h been she observes the first , of that Eng had lish he painters studied , but in probabl Italy , he y y
would have formed a school in this country . But he was selftauht and her motherwho knew all about Essex and Suffolk
g ; , to peop ink le , used skrouds to . say The that pretty his father little village kept a of shop Sudbury , and , he on _-was the b obli orders ged p
of beaut Suffolk and , where worth Gainsboroug a ilgrimage h was from born Saturday , is full to of Monday fair pastoral out of p
well London guess y , . Any that one "he looking studied every at his tree pictures in the at counties Kensington in which mig he ht
livedand was never out of England . " Kni obtain Sir g , ht Josep , a being h sion Kni in from g straitened ht the died crown in circumstances 1775 left , Eng and land shortl , and , and y having afterwards , taking faile Cornelia Lad d to y pen
with hertravelled through France , , and finally fixed her residence in after Ital their y . , Her departure editor from tells us Eng that land , " , during they appear a space to of have twent oscillated of y years those
cities between , and Rome seeing and much Nap both les , of mixin the g political in the best and prelatical society sides of Italian lifeThatin ite of these environmentsCornelia Knight
. , sp , have remained the best both _possible a good proof Prote in stant her and letter a s loyal and j Eng ournals lish . woman Living , we in
a revolutionary period she had a hatred of revolutions , and was a Tory th her at own Old and notes World a Bourbonite , we Continent find in many now every interesting so pulse difficult of touches her for heart us to in . realize " her Turning pictur . They e to of
went first to Pariswhere the Rue de Rivoliand the Rue dela Paix , and all the wide airy , vulgarized localities , known to the travelling the
brain Paterfamilias of a scheming of our architect day , were . The as yet Faubourg undreamt St . of Germain , even in ( alas ! poor faubourg , which M . le Prefet de la Sein his e is at this moment le ,
was a . d . 1861 at that , occup time ied the in part pulling of the down town at to which own good all p strangers asure ) resorted . " I was struck with the contrast between Paris and in
London . The housesof which there are so many , particularly that immense and carri part — _ages of a Swiss the sweep town porter ing , , entre in with and cour out a et sp with jardin lendid gold _, costume appeared coronets at , to every and the me coach to door be - ,
ing men dress , - gentlemen driving coats ski with pp walking ing bag- over wigs with . the The bags kennels ladies and I full had swords dressed seen , and in in the children country morn in -
Miss Cornelia Knight. 153
MISS CORNELIA KNIGHT . 153
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1861, page 153, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111861/page/9/
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