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A RARE OLD LADY. 263
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The Next Electric Telegraph In Order Of ...
nor can we close our paper without offering our most grateful thanks to the committee of that for the liberal manner
company and practical form in which they have viewed tlie important question of female labor .
All communications respecting employment may be addressed to Mrs . Craig , International Telegraph Company , Founders' Court ,
E . C . ; or she may be seen there any Saturday , from two until four o ' clock in the afternoon , by applicants desirous of being received
into the establishment .
M . S . R .
A Rare Old Lady. 263
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__ Amon g the curious and unexpected things which occasionally turn in the course of one ' s life—things whichamong all the odd
up ,, fancies one might chalk out to oneself as of possible occurrence , would never by any chance have come into one ' s head , —think of
finding oneself in this year of grace , 1859 , in the company of a lady , who hadin her younger daysthe dangerous honor of inspiring a
, , " grande passion " in . the heart of Robespierre ; a lady , then one of the most brilliant ornaments of the French stage , and now , at the
age of ninety , not only in full possession of all her mental faculties , but able to declaim a scene from Racine or Moliereor to recite a fable
, from La Fontaine , with a grace , fire , pathos , and tenderness , that no artiste of our day could equal ! Such a singular and interesting
rencontre , a sort of folding back of a century , and a bringing of its two ends together , has just fallen to the lot of the writer of these
lines , at a soiree lately given hy the Countess Gr— de C— in honor of the antediluvian celebrity just referred to .
The lady in question is the widow of the illustrious Talma , now the Countess de Chalotdaughter of Vanhovean actor of considerable
repute in his day , who , , for many years , belonged , to the company of the Thedtre Frangaisethenas nowthe first theatre of Paris .
M . Vanhove performed _, the rdle , of Pa , terfamilias , and was equally respected for his talent , his assiduity in the service of the theatre
with which he was associated , and the probity and kindness which uniformly distinguished him in private life . His wife appears to
have been a woman of more than ordinary talent , " devoted , " as the French say" to her interior" meaning thereby tlie fireside circle
of her home , . Their only child , , a daughter , could never be induced to learn to read ; but when M . Vanhove , then a resident in Brussels ,
and attached to the theatre of that city , was invited , in 1779 , to Paristhe child manifested the most eager desire to see the brilliant
metropolis , , of which she had heard so much . Madame Vanhove adroitly seized this opportunity of inducing the lazy little Caroline
to undertake the repugnant but necessary task , which she had
hitherto succeeded in escaping .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1859, page 263, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121859/page/47/
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