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Diary of Mary Countess of Wales Cowjper ...
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1204 Notices Of Books ;
1204 NOTICES OF BOOKS ;
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XXXIIL _^ NOTIGES OF BOOKS . % ¦ ¦
Diary Of Mary Countess Of Wales Cowjper ...
Diary of Mary Countess of Wales _Cowjper ,. 1714 , Lad — y 1720 of . the Murray Bedchan . iber tp the Princess
the It may Chancellors be remembered " alludes , that to a Lord diary Camp kept bell by , t in he his wife Ci Lives of Lord of
of which Cowper Eng land , keep descri he a er t , b t of had es he the as commencem " great giving met seal a with en ¦ more during t of livel 1 t the he This y B rei p runswick icture gn of has f George the dynasty latel cour I . ,
been than publ any" ished . Even ever apart from its . own intrinsic diary merits j the y scarcity of all political memoirs of the period valuable makes this Lad
con-C tribu owper ti addi on was t t ional o a con t court temporary ticulars during to his the the tory inform rebellion extre ation mel , of y which 1715 , we and . alread adds y y
some hut it is par the characteristic details of life and manners of possess thoug ; hts and feelings , of fashions and peculiarities , which ,
s render tamped this on diary every so line interesting ; and . we Tr learn uth and bow independence one t intimatel are y
unsu associa llied ted . reputation with courts comb and ined courtiers with perfect , could freedom yepreserve of thoug ht
and Little consis is tency known of of conduct , the personal . history of the maid writer , but that
little adds interest to the narrative . Her en name was Mary Clavering , and she was descended from a younger branch
Axwell of the N a orthumbrian race deeply imbued family wi th f Jacobite Clavering predilections of Callalee . She and was born , in 1685 and in 1706 became the wife of William
Lord Cowper , who ,, was then Lord Keepier of the Great Seal , considera and portrait who , ble b y Sir personal shor G t -odfrey ly afterwards attractions Kneller , made proves The Lord library her to Chan at have c Panshanger ellor possessed . Her
in con her tain handwriting s several boo , and ks on she was ther in . the tru habit se sub of jec translatin t of s , with g notes into
Her French deep her attachment husband all ' s to the documen her distractions husband ts , for was of the warml use court y reci she George procated I d .
hhimarid amid a prove herself at y last ah _^ exem accelerated plary wife b and grief an excellent at the loss moth of er her . Her husband death .
enjoyed Lord Cowper was the long retired -coveted from y rest public three life in for 1720 he , died but in he 1723 only .
years , His wife _followed him at the early age of thirty ives -nine : An
de finish extract scribes , to from , a her passage a joy letter at from , written receiving Lady by Cowp a her portrait er daughter ' s own of _^ diary her g , husband wherein a touching , she by
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 2, 1864, page 204, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02051864/page/60/
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