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0 dent , quietly transferred her elegant manners from the stage to . the drawing-room , and the public heard no more of her .
This sensible example was followed by those whom it had probably assisted towards the like exaltation . In 1807 , Louisa Brunton was married
to the late Earl Craven , by whom she was mother to the present ; and , like Miss Farren , disappeared into private life . We recollect her as being what is called a fine woman , and one that
had lady-like manners , carried to a pitch of fashionable indifference . She would sometimes , for instance , twist about a leaf , or bit of thread , between her lips while speaking , by way of evincing her naturalness , or nonchalance . She was sister
of the respectable actor of the same name , and aunt of Mrs Yates , the admirable performer of Victorine . In the same year Miss Searle ( we know not her
Christian name , which is a pity , considering that she was one of the delights of our boyish eyes , ) became the wife of Robert Heathcote , Esq ., brother of Sir Gilbert : and vanished
like her predecessors . She was a dancer , but of great elegance , with a rare look of lady-like self-possession , which she contrived to preserve without injuring a certain air of enjoyment fitting for the dance . It was this union no doubt that
captivated us . < The Beggars' Opera' now put a coronet on the brows of another Polly :-r-at least , tjiis
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character , we believe , was the one which chiefly brought forward the gentle attractions of Mary Catherine Bolton , called also Polly Bolton , who , in 1813 , became the wife of
Lord Thurlow , nephew of the first Lord Thurlow , the judge , and what is more , a true poet , notwithstanding the fantastical things he mixed up with his poetry . Mr Hazlitt became acquainted with his writings on the recommendation either of
Charies Lamb or Barry Cornwall ( we forget which ) , and put him among the living poets , whose specimens he collected in his 6 New Elegant
Extracts . ' There are passages in them of the right inspired sort —remote in the fancy , yet close to feeling , —and worthy to stand in the first rank of modern
genius . We fear he made but too poetical a consort , richer in the article of mind than money ; but if he had a poet ' s kindness , and her ladyship heart enough
to understand him ( as her look promised ) , she may still have been happy . We know nothing further of his lordship or his marriage , except that the present lord is the result . We have no records before
us to show when Mr Becher , a gentleman of fortune , married the celebrated tragic actress , Miss CVNeil ; nor when Mr Bradshaw , another ,
married Miss Tree , one of the truest of the representatives of Shakspeare ' s gentler heroines , albeit there was something a little fastidious in hex countenance . Tl ^ e latest
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172 Duchess of St Albam ; and
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 1, 1837, page 172, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1835/page/28/
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