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XXX.—CAROLINE PICHLEE.
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Ojste of tlie most popular novelists, an...
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Xxx.—Caroline Pichlee.
XXX . —CAROLINE PICHLEE .
Ojste Of Tlie Most Popular Novelists, An...
_Ojste of tlie most popular novelists , and certainly one of the mosfc voluminous authoresses ever known in Germanyyet at the same
, time one whose life was an example of every domestic virtue , was Caroline Pichler . Her name is seldom referred to in that country
without some commendatory epithet , a tribute rendered perhaps as much to her personal as to her literary character . The story of
her life is told in the last work which proceeded from her pen , an Autobiographywhichthough bearing marks of the garrulity of old
, , ag _* e , yet contains much that is interesting . Having been brought into contact with most of the distinguished personages of her age ,
she was able to make the volumes which record her experiences a gallery of contemporary portraits .
There was something of romance in the early history of her mother , who , having been half orphaned in infancy , accompanied
her father , an officer in the Austrian army , in his camp life till her fifth yearwhen this remaining parent also dying , the
poor child was left , a sort of " Jllle du regiment , " until , the sad story coming to the ears of Maria Theresathe kind-hearted Empress
, determined to take charge of the little waif . She was committed , with some other children destined for the Empress's service , to the
care of an old lady , whose office it was to teach the little then required of irls in such a station . The lively intelligent child was
selected to g be trained as " Reader" and was pronounced qualified to enter on the duties of this post , at the early age of thirteen . In
the account of her life at Court some curious glimpses are afforded Empress both of the - " King manners -. ' A of the very age earl and y riser of the Maria personal Theresa character ' s b of ell the in .
summer rang by Rve o'clock a . m ., and as eti , quette forbade any one to appear before her except in " silk attire" duly hooped and with hair
her elaboratel had to y leave dressed their , the beds attendants earlindeed whose . , Their turn office it was was to a we wait arisome _ujDon
one acted . the The part Empress of milliners 's taste was , had y critical often , to and alter her her " dresser head- s dresses , " who four also
or five times , even sometimes until the material was spoiled , while her hair , which it was then the fashion to build up into a most
elaborate fabric , had also often to be taken down when the structure was almost complete , combed out again , and wholly re-curled .
The orphan protegee , having shown special taste in this department , her attendance was required dailand so weary did she become
of everything connected with personal y , decoration , that throughout a long life she herself always dressed as plainly as possible , and
made her daughter adopt the same style . ' Heading was a pleasanter taskthough it was not for amusement
that the Empress required this service , of her . She was employed in
reading despatches and business letters , which afforded her great
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1862, page 154, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111862/page/10/
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