Digital Mitford: Letters

What a happy device have you found, my dear Sir WilliamWilliam Elford, Sir, baronet , Recorder for Plymouth, Recorder for Totnes, Member of Parliament for Plymouth , Member of Parliament for Rye, Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS), Fellow of the Linnaean Society (FLS) | Born: 1749-08 in Kingsbridge, Devon, England. Died: 1837-11-30 in Totnes, Devon, England.
According to L’Estrange, Sir William was first a friend of Mitford’s father, and Mitford met him for the first time in the spring of 1810 when he was a widower nearing the age of 64. They carried on a lively correspondence until his death in 1837. Elford worked as a banker at Plymouth Bank (Elford, Tingcombe and Purchase) in Plymouth, Devon, from its founding in 1782. He was elected a member of Parliament for Plymouth as a supporter of the government and Tory William Pitt, and served from 1796 to 1806. After his election defeat in Plymouth in 1806, he was elected member of Parliament for Rye and served from July 1807 until his resignation in July 1808. For his service in Parliament as a supporter of Pitt, he was made a baronet in 1800. After his son Jonathan came of age, he tried to secure a stable government post for him but never succeeded. Mayor of Plymouth in 1796 and Recorder for Plymouth from 1797 to 1833, he was also Recorder for Totnes from 1832 to 1834. Sir William served as an officer in the South Devon militia from 1788, eventually attaining the rank of Lieutenant Colonel; the unit saw active service in Ireland during the Peninsular Wars. Sir William was a talented amateur painter in oils and watercolors who exhibited at the Royal Society from 1774 to 1837; he exhibited still lifes and portraits but preferred landscapes. He was elected to the Royal Society Academy in 1790. He was also a talented amateur naturalist and was elected to the Royal Linnaean Society in 1790; late in life, he published his findings on an alternative to yeast. He married his first wife, Mary Davies of Plympton, on January 20, 1776 and they had one son, Jonathan, and two daughters, Grace Chard and Elizabeth. After the death of his first wife, he married Elizabeth Hall Walrond, widow of Lieutenant-Colonel Maine Swete Walrond of the Coldstream Guards. His only son Jonathan died in 1823, leaving him without an heir. --#ebb #lmw, to make me write quickly! Unless you write immediately & write a long letter say you I shall be sure that you are married. And then you talk something of being certain that I am in Love & being courted & so forth because I have given you a short respite from the fatigue & diffiulty of deciphering a frankfull of my hieroglyphics once a fortnight. But, [empty]Alas! my dear friend, you are mistaken, mistaken—quite mistaken, I assure you!you. I am not going to be married—married. no such good luckluck, as PapaGeorge Mitford, Esq., or: George Midford | Born: 1760-11-15 in Hexham, Northumberland, England. Died: 1842-12-11 in Three Mile Cross, Shinfield, Berkshire, England.
George Mitford was born on November 15, 1760 in Hexham, Northumberland, the son of Francis Midford, surgeon, and Jane Graham. He was related to the Mitfords of Mitford Castle, Northumberland. In 1784, he was living in Alresford and is listed in a Hampshire directory as "surgeon (medicine)." Although later sources would claim that he was a graduate of the University of Edinburgh medical school, there is no evidence that he obtained a medical degree; his father and grandfather worked as surgeon-apothecaries and it seems likely that he served a medical apprenticeship with family members. He married Mary Russell on October 17, 1785 at New Alresford, Hampshire. On the marriage allegation papers, both gave their addresses as Old Alresford; they later came to live at Broad Street in New Alresford. Their only child to live to adulthood, Mary Russell Mitford, was born two years later on December 16, 1787 at New Alresford, Hampshire. George Mitford died on December 11, 1842 at Three Mile Cross in the parish of Shinfield, Berkshire. --#lmw says—says.I have not been courted—courted,&and I am not in Love. So much for this question—question.If I ever should happen to be going to be married (elegant construction this!)this!), I will notwill then not fail to let you into the secret—secret; but Alas! Alas!! Alas!!! In such a thenIn [gap: 3 characters.]h a then I write a never. [2] Quotation from All's Well that Ends Well, act three, scene two; letter read by Helena: When thou canst get the ring upon my finger, which shall never come off, and show me a child begotten of thy body, that I am father to, then call me husband, but in such a then I write a never.—#lmw—In the meantime I am infinitely flattered & delighted to find you complaining of short letters. PapaGeorge Mitford, Esq., or: George Midford | Born: 1760-11-15 in Hexham, Northumberland, England. Died: 1842-12-11 in Three Mile Cross, Shinfield, Berkshire, England.
George Mitford was born on November 15, 1760 in Hexham, Northumberland, the son of Francis Midford, surgeon, and Jane Graham. He was related to the Mitfords of Mitford Castle, Northumberland. In 1784, he was living in Alresford and is listed in a Hampshire directory as "surgeon (medicine)." Although later sources would claim that he was a graduate of the University of Edinburgh medical school, there is no evidence that he obtained a medical degree; his father and grandfather worked as surgeon-apothecaries and it seems likely that he served a medical apprenticeship with family members. He married Mary Russell on October 17, 1785 at New Alresford, Hampshire. On the marriage allegation papers, both gave their addresses as Old Alresford; they later came to live at Broad Street in New Alresford. Their only child to live to adulthood, Mary Russell Mitford, was born two years later on December 16, 1787 at New Alresford, Hampshire. George Mitford died on December 11, 1842 at Three Mile Cross in the parish of Shinfield, Berkshire. --#lmw has always so scolded me for sending you such long ones & bewailed your hard fate so pitifully in being condemned to read them, that I really began to think in spite of all your politeness & my own vanity that I was doing you a great favour in curtailing my epistles. But now he may scold as long as he pleases I have it under your own hand that you like long letters & long ones you shall have bad good & indifferent—there is a Latin line which I am afraid of writing for fear of blunder butwhich you doubtless remember which expresses pretty accurately the degree in which the aforesaid qualities are likely to appear in my epistles.—Now my dear Sir WilliamWilliam Elford, Sir, baronet , Recorder for Plymouth, Recorder for Totnes, Member of Parliament for Plymouth , Member of Parliament for Rye, Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS), Fellow of the Linnaean Society (FLS) | Born: 1749-08 in Kingsbridge, Devon, England. Died: 1837-11-30 in Totnes, Devon, England.
According to L’Estrange, Sir William was first a friend of Mitford’s father, and Mitford met him for the first time in the spring of 1810 when he was a widower nearing the age of 64. They carried on a lively correspondence until his death in 1837. Elford worked as a banker at Plymouth Bank (Elford, Tingcombe and Purchase) in Plymouth, Devon, from its founding in 1782. He was elected a member of Parliament for Plymouth as a supporter of the government and Tory William Pitt, and served from 1796 to 1806. After his election defeat in Plymouth in 1806, he was elected member of Parliament for Rye and served from July 1807 until his resignation in July 1808. For his service in Parliament as a supporter of Pitt, he was made a baronet in 1800. After his son Jonathan came of age, he tried to secure a stable government post for him but never succeeded. Mayor of Plymouth in 1796 and Recorder for Plymouth from 1797 to 1833, he was also Recorder for Totnes from 1832 to 1834. Sir William served as an officer in the South Devon militia from 1788, eventually attaining the rank of Lieutenant Colonel; the unit saw active service in Ireland during the Peninsular Wars. Sir William was a talented amateur painter in oils and watercolors who exhibited at the Royal Society from 1774 to 1837; he exhibited still lifes and portraits but preferred landscapes. He was elected to the Royal Society Academy in 1790. He was also a talented amateur naturalist and was elected to the Royal Linnaean Society in 1790; late in life, he published his findings on an alternative to yeast. He married his first wife, Mary Davies of Plympton, on January 20, 1776 and they had one son, Jonathan, and two daughters, Grace Chard and Elizabeth. After the death of his first wife, he married Elizabeth Hall Walrond, widow of Lieutenant-Colonel Maine Swete Walrond of the Coldstream Guards. His only son Jonathan died in 1823, leaving him without an heir. --#ebb #lmw, then I have like you & CowperWilliam Cowper | Born: 1731-11-26 in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England. Died: 1800-04-25 in East Dereham, Norfolk, England.
-- done talking of my letter. I will if you please begin writing it. And first of all I must quarrel with you for depriving me of the pleasure of descanting on two such notable subjects as the Corn Laws & BonaparteNapoleon Bonaparte
In 1814 when Napoleon was still powerful but on the retreat in Europe, Mary Russell Mitford published a poem titled Napoleon’s Dream in The Poetical Register and Repository of Fugitive Poetry VIII: 215-220 . In the poem, she characterized the military leader and emperor as be-nightmared. Betty Bennett featured an edition of Napoleon’s Dream in her digital collection British War Poetry in the Age of Romanticism, 1793-1815 in 2004 . --#ebb by being exactly of my opinion & leaving me nothing to say. As to the Corn Laws they, I must confess, are but the Ghost of a subject & even that troubled spirit seems likely enough to be laid in the red Sea by the mighty Conjuror of FranceFrance | 46.227638 2.213749000000007 | Country in western Europe. Paris is the capital and largest city.--#bas46.227638 2.213749000000007—but we might neverthless have had a very pretty little dispute about it if we had not happened to be of the same way of thinking—though I believe that I was less an advocate for them than you were (I take it for granted you see that you were for them though you defied me to find out on which side you had ranged yourself) from thinking in common with the best informed people in this neighbourhood that the difference either to the Farmer or the Consumer would be infinitely less than was expected not merely by the mob but by the rational part of their leaders. With regard to the EmperorNapoleon Bonaparte
In 1814 when Napoleon was still powerful but on the retreat in Europe, Mary Russell Mitford published a poem titled Napoleon’s Dream in The Poetical Register and Repository of Fugitive Poetry VIII: 215-220 . In the poem, she characterized the military leader and emperor as be-nightmared. Betty Bennett featured an edition of Napoleon’s Dream in her digital collection British War Poetry in the Age of Romanticism, 1793-1815 in 2004 . --#ebb we are exactly of a mind—no country can have a right to dictate to another as to the form of its internal Government, & when a whole nation, consisting of course of those who act & those who acquiesce, when a whole nation by one simultaneous & bloodless revolution deposed one Monarch—a Monarch imposed on  them it by conquering Kings & replaces another of its own free & unbiased choice, & when FranceFrance | 46.227638 2.213749000000007 | Country in western Europe. Paris is the capital and largest city.--#bas46.227638 2.213749000000007 is that Nation and NapoleonNapoleon Bonaparte
In 1814 when Napoleon was still powerful but on the retreat in Europe, Mary Russell Mitford published a poem titled Napoleon’s Dream in The Poetical Register and Repository of Fugitive Poetry VIII: 215-220 . In the poem, she characterized the military leader and emperor as be-nightmared. Betty Bennett featured an edition of Napoleon’s Dream in her digital collection British War Poetry in the Age of Romanticism, 1793-1815 in 2004 . --#ebb that Monarch none but madmen would interfere & none but fools could expect their interference to succeed. If NapoleonNapoleon Bonaparte
In 1814 when Napoleon was still powerful but on the retreat in Europe, Mary Russell Mitford published a poem titled Napoleon’s Dream in The Poetical Register and Repository of Fugitive Poetry VIII: 215-220 . In the poem, she characterized the military leader and emperor as be-nightmared. Betty Bennett featured an edition of Napoleon’s Dream in her digital collection British War Poetry in the Age of Romanticism, 1793-1815 in 2004 . --#ebb be a Tyrant what is that to us! The French have deserved him ^ by their treachery to LouisLouis Auguste , Duc de Berry, Dauphin of France, His Most Christian Majesty The King of France, Citizen Louis Capet | Born: 1754-08-23 in Palace of Versailles, Versailles, France. Died: 1793-01-21 in .
Last King of France during the Ancien Régime, he ruled as absolute monarch until 1789 and after the French Revolution as a constitutional monarch until 1792. He was imprisoned, tried, and guillotined in 1792-1793. --#jgf #lmw, & if they prefer a King ?? to a King ?? in the name of Heaven let them keep him. If he be not a Tyrant—And surely FranceFrance | 46.227638 2.213749000000007 | Country in western Europe. Paris is the capital and largest city.--#bas46.227638 2.213749000000007 ought to know—they have deserved him by their fidelity to himself, & why should we interrupt their happiness by efforts which must mar our own. What a pity it was that LouisLouis Auguste , Duc de Berry, Dauphin of France, His Most Christian Majesty The King of France, Citizen Louis Capet | Born: 1754-08-23 in Palace of Versailles, Versailles, France. Died: 1793-01-21 in .
Last King of France during the Ancien Régime, he ruled as absolute monarch until 1789 and after the French Revolution as a constitutional monarch until 1792. He was imprisoned, tried, and guillotined in 1792-1793. --#jgf #lmw did not when he saw as he must have seen that hope was lost retire   presently tranquilly to EnglandEngland | 52.3555177 -1.1743197000000691 | Country in the British Isles. Borders Scotland and Wales. London is the capital city, and is situated on the River Thames.--#bas52.3555177 -1.1743197000000691 leaving Peace as a parting legacy to FranceFrance | 46.227638 2.213749000000007 | Country in western Europe. Paris is the capital and largest city.--#bas46.227638 2.213749000000007 & building for himself a truer a better & a more dignified reputation by relinquishing his throne than any that even a long reign could have gained him. He was good enough to have done this—why was he not great enough?[empty]

Pray have you read the Lord of the Isles?The Lord of the Isles? I do not mean, as I once unwittingly did in the beginning of our correspondence, to draw you into the scrape of reading a Poem,poem; butbut, if you should by chance have looked at itit, pray tell me how you like it. It is certainly a thousand times better than Rokeby & yetRokeby, and yet it does not please me as ScottWalter Scott | Born: 1771-08-15 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Died: 1832-09-21 in Abbotsford, Scotland.
Scottish antiquarian, poet, and novelist. Also worked as clerk of the Court of Session in Edinburgh. He assembled a collection of Scottish ballads, many of which had never before been printed, in Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, first published in 1802, but continually expanded in revised editions through 1812 . Author of the long romance poems, The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805), Marmion (1808), and The Lady of the Lake (1810). From 1814-1831, Scott published 23 novels, and over the course of his literary career, he wrote review articles for the Edinburgh Review, The Quarterly Review, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, and the Foreign Quarterly Review.--#ebb #esh's Poemspoems used to do. I am afraid that I once admired him a great deal too much &much, and now am in some danger of liking him a great deal too little. Nothing soNothing is so violent as a reboundrebound, either   ^ of the head or the heart. Once extinquishextinguished, enthusiasm &and all the fire in Vesuvius will never light it again. I fancy that the Worldworld is something of my mind in this respect &respect, and begins to tire of its Idol—only the Worldidol. Only the world is not half so honest &honest, and, instead of Knocking down one piece of woodwood, contents itself with sticking up another right before it—It is notnot, say all the gentle damsels of my acquaintance that we like ScottWalter Scott | Born: 1771-08-15 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Died: 1832-09-21 in Abbotsford, Scotland.
Scottish antiquarian, poet, and novelist. Also worked as clerk of the Court of Session in Edinburgh. He assembled a collection of Scottish ballads, many of which had never before been printed, in Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, first published in 1802, but continually expanded in revised editions through 1812 . Author of the long romance poems, The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805), Marmion (1808), and The Lady of the Lake (1810). From 1814-1831, Scott published 23 novels, and over the course of his literary career, he wrote review articles for the Edinburgh Review, The Quarterly Review, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, and the Foreign Quarterly Review.--#ebb #esh less—we only like Lord ByronGeorge Gordon Noel Byron, sixth Baron Byron | Born: 1788-01-22 in Holles Street, London. Died: 1824-04-19 in Missolonghi, Greece.
-- better. Now I do not—not; I like ScottWalter Scott | Born: 1771-08-15 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Died: 1832-09-21 in Abbotsford, Scotland.
Scottish antiquarian, poet, and novelist. Also worked as clerk of the Court of Session in Edinburgh. He assembled a collection of Scottish ballads, many of which had never before been printed, in Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, first published in 1802, but continually expanded in revised editions through 1812 . Author of the long romance poems, The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805), Marmion (1808), and The Lady of the Lake (1810). From 1814-1831, Scott published 23 novels, and over the course of his literary career, he wrote review articles for the Edinburgh Review, The Quarterly Review, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, and the Foreign Quarterly Review.--#ebb #esh less—butless, but Lord ByronGeorge Gordon Noel Byron, sixth Baron Byron | Born: 1788-01-22 in Holles Street, London. Died: 1824-04-19 in Missolonghi, Greece.
-- less still; thestill. The only modern Poetpoet whom I like better &and better is CampbellThomas Campbell | Born: 1777-07-27 in Glasgow, Scotland. Died: 1844-06-15 in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France.
Scottish poet and editor: author of The Pleasures of Hope (1799) and Gertrude of Wyoming (1799). Editor of the New Monthly Magazine from 1821 to 1830, in which capacity he knew Thomas Noon Talfourd as a contributor. See Cyrus Redding’s Literary Reminiscences and Memoirs of Thomas Campbell . Possibly the Mr. Campbell that Mitford mentions in her letter to Talfourd of 13 August 1822 . --#ebb. I have told you my dear friend[empty] that I would not put you in the case to beput you in danger of being jingled into a fever by mincing poesypoesy; [3] Hotspur in Shakespeare's Henry IV Part I, act 3, scene 1: And that would set my teeth nothing on edge,/ Nothing so much as mincing poetry.—#lmw but I have found out, to my great satisfaction (for I too am a novel-reader)[empty] that there is no danger of affrontingI sha'n't affront you by recommending a prose Epicepic to your perusal,perusal; &and I have lately been very much &and very unexpectedly pleased with Lady MorganSydney Owenson, Lady Morgan, or: Lady Morgan | Born: 1781-12-25 in Either Dublin, Ireland or the Irish Sea. Died: 1859-04-14 in London, England.
-- (ci-devant Miss Owenson's)Lady Morgan's (ci-devant Miss Owenson) O'DonnelO’Donnel: A National Tale. Sydney Owenson. Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan . London: Henry Colburn. 1814. .O'Donnel. I had a great prejudice &and dislike to this fair Authorauthoress ever since I read a certain description of which she was guiltyguilty,   ^ where part of a Lady'slady's dress is described as an apparent tissue of woven air, [4] A misattribution. Not from from Owenson's 1814 novel but from her Woman; or Ida of Athens: She resembled as she lay, the beautiful personification of Bashfulness by Corradini; for an air of vestal innocence, that modesty which is of soul, seemed to diffuse itself over a form whose exquisite symmetry was at once betrayed and concealed by the apparent tissue of woven air which fell like a vapour around her. The Quarterly Review and Barrett's novel The Heroine also poked fun at this passage.—#lmw &and really took up the book with an idea that nothing but nonsense could come from that quarter. I was howeverwas, however, very much disappointed in my ^ malicious expectations of laughing at her &her, and obliged to content myself with laughing with her. Her hero is very interesting—her heroine very amusing—thereamusing. There are some good characterscharacters, particularly a managing bustling woman of fashion et pour la bonne boucheet pour la bonne-bouche, [5] Colloquially, the best for the last.—#lmw there is an Irish servant not much if at allnot much, if at all, inferior to the admirable Irishmen of Miss EdgeworthMaria Edgeworth | Born: 1768-01-01 in Black Bourton, Oxfordshire, England. Died: 1849-05-22 in Engleworthstown, Longford, Ireland.
British author and educator. Best known for Castle Rackrent (novel, 1800); also wrote children’s novels and educational treatises. --#lmw #cmm.With all this the book has two great faults—Irish politics & Irish Antiquities found admission I by the help of an Author-like fellow feeling have discovered. Poor Lady MorganSydney Owenson, Lady Morgan, or: Lady Morgan | Born: 1781-12-25 in Either Dublin, Ireland or the Irish Sea. Died: 1859-04-14 in London, England.
-- meant to have made one of her old romances full of woven air & so forth of her work & have collected materials & written a good deal could not find it in her heart to throw it away & so foisted the ODonnel of ElizabethElizabeth Tudor, Queen Elizabeth I, Queen of England, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, etc. | Born: 1533-09-07 in Palace of Placentia, Greenwich, England. Died: 1603-03-24 in Richmond Palace, Surrey, England.
The last of the Tudor monarchs, and defender of father’s instition of a Protestant Church of England, Elizabeth I was Queen of England, France, and Ireland from 1588 until her death in 1603. --#ebb #rnes's time into the ODonnel of George the ThirdGeorge William Frederick , King of Great Britain and King of Ireland , King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | Born: 1738-06-04 in Norfolk House, St. James’s Square, London, England. Died: 1820-01-29 in Windsor Castle, Windsor, England.
The king who lost the American colonies, and suffered porphyria adn mental illness in the 1810s, when his son, the future King George IV reigned in his stead as the Prince Regent. King George III’s role changed after the Act of Union between England and Ireland in 1801. --#ebb's by way of ^ an Ancestor. After all the book is very entertaining & the Episode easily skiptskipped.[empty] AproposApropros to novels.—novels, I have discovered that our great favourite Miss AustenJane Austen | Born: 1775-12-16 in Steventon, Hampshire, England. Died: 1817-07-18 in Winchester, Hampshire, England.
Novelist celebrated for her wit and style, whose works investigated women's social and economic vulnerabilities in English society. During her lifetime she published anonymously. Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), and Emma (1815), all anonymously. Northanger Abbey, the first written of her novels (composed in 1798-1799) was published posthumously in 1818 (the title was chosen by surviving family) along with her final completed novel, Persuasion. Mitford claims in a letter to Sir William Elford of 3 April 1815 that she has recently discovered Austen is my countrywoman,, that is, a neighbor. Later in a letter of 2 July 1816 praised Emma in particular among Austen's novels. She and Elford evidently knew the identity of Austen as the author long before the information was public knowledge, and she claims in the April 3 letter that her mother remembered Jane Austen in her youth as the prettiest, silliest, most affected, husband-hunting butterfly she ever remembers, but that Jane was by the 1810s extremely quiet, which impressed Mitford: till Pride and Prejudice showed what a precious gem was hidden in that unbending case, she was no more regarded in society than a poker or a fire-screen, or any other thin upright piece of wood or iron that fills its corner in peace and quietness. The case is very different now; she is still a poker--but a poker of whom every one is afraid. It must be confessed that this silent observation from such an observer is rather formidable. Most writers are good-humoured chatterers--neither very wise nor very witty:—but nine times out of ten (at least in the few that I have known) unaffected and pleasant, and quite removing by their conversation any awe that may have been excited by their works. But a wit, a delineator of character, who does not talk, is terrific indeed! Source: L’Estrange. --#ebb #rnesfavourite, Miss Austen,Jane Austen | Born: 1775-12-16 in Steventon, Hampshire, England. Died: 1817-07-18 in Winchester, Hampshire, England.
Novelist celebrated for her wit and style, whose works investigated women's social and economic vulnerabilities in English society. During her lifetime she published anonymously. Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), and Emma (1815), all anonymously. Northanger Abbey, the first written of her novels (composed in 1798-1799) was published posthumously in 1818 (the title was chosen by surviving family) along with her final completed novel, Persuasion. Mitford claims in a letter to Sir William Elford of 3 April 1815 that she has recently discovered Austen is my countrywoman,, that is, a neighbor. Later in a letter of 2 July 1816 praised Emma in particular among Austen's novels. She and Elford evidently knew the identity of Austen as the author long before the information was public knowledge, and she claims in the April 3 letter that her mother remembered Jane Austen in her youth as the prettiest, silliest, most affected, husband-hunting butterfly she ever remembers, but that Jane was by the 1810s extremely quiet, which impressed Mitford: till Pride and Prejudice showed what a precious gem was hidden in that unbending case, she was no more regarded in society than a poker or a fire-screen, or any other thin upright piece of wood or iron that fills its corner in peace and quietness. The case is very different now; she is still a poker--but a poker of whom every one is afraid. It must be confessed that this silent observation from such an observer is rather formidable. Most writers are good-humoured chatterers--neither very wise nor very witty:—but nine times out of ten (at least in the few that I have known) unaffected and pleasant, and quite removing by their conversation any awe that may have been excited by their works. But a wit, a delineator of character, who does not talk, is terrific indeed! Source: L’Estrange. --#ebb #rnes is my Countrywoman—countrywoman; that MamamammaMary Russell Mitford, or: Mrs. Mitford | Born: 1750 in Ashe, Hampshire, England. Died: 1830-01-02 in Three Mile Cross, parish of Shinfield, Berkshire, England.
Mary Russell was the youngest child of the Rev. Dr. Richard Russell and his second wife, Mary Dicker; she was born about 1750 in Ashe, Hampshire. (Her birth date is as yet unverified; period sources indicate that she was ten years older than her husband George, born in 1760.) Through the Russells, she was a distant relation of the Dukes of Bedford (sixth creation, 1694). She had two siblings, Charles William and Frances; both predeceased her and their parents, which resulted in Mary Russell inheriting her family’s entire estate upon her mother’s death in 1785. Her father’s rectory in Ashe was only a short distance from Steventon, and so she was acquainted with the young Jane Austen. She married George Mitford or Midford on October 17, 1785 at New Alresford, Hampshire. On the marriage allegation papers, both gave their addresses as Old Alresford. Their only daughter, Mary Russell Mitford, was born two years later on December 16, 1787 at New Alresford, Hampshire. Mary Russell died on January 2, 1830 at Three Mile Cross in the parish of Shinfield, Berkshire. Her obituary in the 1830 New Monthly Magazine gives the "New Year’s day" as the date of her death. --#ajc #lmw knew all her family very intimately, &intimately; and ^ that she herself is an old maid (I beg her pardon Ipardon—I mean a young lady) with whom MamamammaMary Russell Mitford, or: Mrs. Mitford | Born: 1750 in Ashe, Hampshire, England. Died: 1830-01-02 in Three Mile Cross, parish of Shinfield, Berkshire, England.
Mary Russell was the youngest child of the Rev. Dr. Richard Russell and his second wife, Mary Dicker; she was born about 1750 in Ashe, Hampshire. (Her birth date is as yet unverified; period sources indicate that she was ten years older than her husband George, born in 1760.) Through the Russells, she was a distant relation of the Dukes of Bedford (sixth creation, 1694). She had two siblings, Charles William and Frances; both predeceased her and their parents, which resulted in Mary Russell inheriting her family’s entire estate upon her mother’s death in 1785. Her father’s rectory in Ashe was only a short distance from Steventon, and so she was acquainted with the young Jane Austen. She married George Mitford or Midford on October 17, 1785 at New Alresford, Hampshire. On the marriage allegation papers, both gave their addresses as Old Alresford. Their only daughter, Mary Russell Mitford, was born two years later on December 16, 1787 at New Alresford, Hampshire. Mary Russell died on January 2, 1830 at Three Mile Cross in the parish of Shinfield, Berkshire. Her obituary in the 1830 New Monthly Magazine gives the "New Year’s day" as the date of her death. --#ajc #lmw [del: 2 words.] before her marriage was acquainted.—acquainted. MamaMammaMary Russell Mitford, or: Mrs. Mitford | Born: 1750 in Ashe, Hampshire, England. Died: 1830-01-02 in Three Mile Cross, parish of Shinfield, Berkshire, England.
Mary Russell was the youngest child of the Rev. Dr. Richard Russell and his second wife, Mary Dicker; she was born about 1750 in Ashe, Hampshire. (Her birth date is as yet unverified; period sources indicate that she was ten years older than her husband George, born in 1760.) Through the Russells, she was a distant relation of the Dukes of Bedford (sixth creation, 1694). She had two siblings, Charles William and Frances; both predeceased her and their parents, which resulted in Mary Russell inheriting her family’s entire estate upon her mother’s death in 1785. Her father’s rectory in Ashe was only a short distance from Steventon, and so she was acquainted with the young Jane Austen. She married George Mitford or Midford on October 17, 1785 at New Alresford, Hampshire. On the marriage allegation papers, both gave their addresses as Old Alresford. Their only daughter, Mary Russell Mitford, was born two years later on December 16, 1787 at New Alresford, Hampshire. Mary Russell died on January 2, 1830 at Three Mile Cross in the parish of Shinfield, Berkshire. Her obituary in the 1830 New Monthly Magazine gives the "New Year’s day" as the date of her death. --#ajc #lmw says that she was then the prettiest silliestprettiest, silliest, most affected husband-hunting butterfly she ever   remembers—&remembers; and a friend of mine who visits her nowmine, who visits her now, says that she has stiffened into the most perpendicular preciseperpendicular, precise, taciturn piece of single blessedness [6] A Midsummer Night's Dream, act one, scene one, Theseus to Hermia: Earthlier happy is the rose distilled/ Than that which withering on the virgin thorn/ Grows, lives and dies in single blessedness.—#lmwthat ever existed, & thatand that, till Pride & PrejudicePride and PrejudicePride and Prejudice: A Novel. Jane Austen. Jane Austen Jane Austen . London: T. Egerton. 1813. showed ^ what a precious gem was hidden in that unbending casecase, she was no more regarded in society than a poker or a fire skreenscreen or any other thinthin, upright piece of wood or iron that fills its corner   in peace &and quietness. The case is very different now—now;she is still a poker—poker,but a poker of whom every one is afraid. It must be confessed that this silent observation from such an observer is rather formidable—mostformidable. Most writers are good humouredgood-humoured chatterers—neither very wise nor very witty—butwitty; but, nine times out of ten—at least in the few that I have known,(at least in the few I have known), unaffected & pleasant &unaffected and pleasant, and quite removing by their conversation any   fear awe that may have been excited by their works—butworks. But a wit, a delineator of charactercharacter, who does not talktalk, is terrific indeed! After allall, I do not know that I can quite vouch for this accountaccount, though the friend from whom I received it is truth itself—itself; but her family connections must render her disagreeable to Miss AustenAusten,Jane Austen | Born: 1775-12-16 in Steventon, Hampshire, England. Died: 1817-07-18 in Winchester, Hampshire, England.
Novelist celebrated for her wit and style, whose works investigated women's social and economic vulnerabilities in English society. During her lifetime she published anonymously. Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), and Emma (1815), all anonymously. Northanger Abbey, the first written of her novels (composed in 1798-1799) was published posthumously in 1818 (the title was chosen by surviving family) along with her final completed novel, Persuasion. Mitford claims in a letter to Sir William Elford of 3 April 1815 that she has recently discovered Austen is my countrywoman,, that is, a neighbor. Later in a letter of 2 July 1816 praised Emma in particular among Austen's novels. She and Elford evidently knew the identity of Austen as the author long before the information was public knowledge, and she claims in the April 3 letter that her mother remembered Jane Austen in her youth as the prettiest, silliest, most affected, husband-hunting butterfly she ever remembers, but that Jane was by the 1810s extremely quiet, which impressed Mitford: till Pride and Prejudice showed what a precious gem was hidden in that unbending case, she was no more regarded in society than a poker or a fire-screen, or any other thin upright piece of wood or iron that fills its corner in peace and quietness. The case is very different now; she is still a poker--but a poker of whom every one is afraid. It must be confessed that this silent observation from such an observer is rather formidable. Most writers are good-humoured chatterers--neither very wise nor very witty:—but nine times out of ten (at least in the few that I have known) unaffected and pleasant, and quite removing by their conversation any awe that may have been excited by their works. But a wit, a delineator of character, who does not talk, is terrific indeed! Source: L’Estrange. --#ebb #rnes since she is the sister in lawsister-in-law of a Gentlemangentleman who is at law with Miss A.Jane Austen | Born: 1775-12-16 in Steventon, Hampshire, England. Died: 1817-07-18 in Winchester, Hampshire, England.
Novelist celebrated for her wit and style, whose works investigated women's social and economic vulnerabilities in English society. During her lifetime she published anonymously. Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), and Emma (1815), all anonymously. Northanger Abbey, the first written of her novels (composed in 1798-1799) was published posthumously in 1818 (the title was chosen by surviving family) along with her final completed novel, Persuasion. Mitford claims in a letter to Sir William Elford of 3 April 1815 that she has recently discovered Austen is my countrywoman,, that is, a neighbor. Later in a letter of 2 July 1816 praised Emma in particular among Austen's novels. She and Elford evidently knew the identity of Austen as the author long before the information was public knowledge, and she claims in the April 3 letter that her mother remembered Jane Austen in her youth as the prettiest, silliest, most affected, husband-hunting butterfly she ever remembers, but that Jane was by the 1810s extremely quiet, which impressed Mitford: till Pride and Prejudice showed what a precious gem was hidden in that unbending case, she was no more regarded in society than a poker or a fire-screen, or any other thin upright piece of wood or iron that fills its corner in peace and quietness. The case is very different now; she is still a poker--but a poker of whom every one is afraid. It must be confessed that this silent observation from such an observer is rather formidable. Most writers are good-humoured chatterers--neither very wise nor very witty:—but nine times out of ten (at least in the few that I have known) unaffected and pleasant, and quite removing by their conversation any awe that may have been excited by their works. But a wit, a delineator of character, who does not talk, is terrific indeed! Source: L’Estrange. --#ebb #rnes's brother for the greater part of his fortune. [7] Every other account of Jane Austen, from whatever quarter, represents her as handsome, graceful, amiable, and shy.—#Lestrange_Letters[empty]You must have remarked how much her stories hinge upon entailed estates—estates; doubtless she has learnt to dislike Entailsentails. Her brother was adopted by a Mr. Knight who left him his name &and two much better legacies in an estate of five thousand a year in Kent &Kent, and one of nearly double the value in HampshireHampshire, England | Hampshire England | 51.05769480000001 -1.3080628999999817 | County on the southern coast of England, known historically as the County of Southampton. The county town is Winchester. Abbreviated "Hants." --#lmw51.05769480000001 -1.3080628999999817,HampshireHampshire, England | Hampshire England | 51.05769480000001 -1.3080628999999817 | County on the southern coast of England, known historically as the County of Southampton. The county town is Winchester. Abbreviated "Hants." --#lmw51.05769480000001 -1.3080628999999817; but it seems that he forgot some ceremony—passing a finefine, I think they call it—with regard to the HampshireHampshire, England | Hampshire England | 51.05769480000001 -1.3080628999999817 | County on the southern coast of England, known historically as the County of Southampton. The county town is Winchester. Abbreviated "Hants." --#lmw51.05769480000001 -1.3080628999999817 property, which Mr. Baverstock has claimed in right of his Mother together, together with the mesne rents &rents, and is likely to be successful.—successful. Before I quite drop the subject of novelsnovels, I must tell you that I am reading Guy ManneringGuy ManneringGuy Mannering. Walter Scott. with great pleasure—pleasure. I have not finished it nearlynearly, so that I speak of it now as any one would do that had read no farther than the second Volume of the Mysteries of UdolphoMysteries of Udolpho, &and that won't be much better than one who had finished it—it. I do not think that Walter ScottWalter Scott | Born: 1771-08-15 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Died: 1832-09-21 in Abbotsford, Scotland.
Scottish antiquarian, poet, and novelist. Also worked as clerk of the Court of Session in Edinburgh. He assembled a collection of Scottish ballads, many of which had never before been printed, in Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, first published in 1802, but continually expanded in revised editions through 1812 . Author of the long romance poems, The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805), Marmion (1808), and The Lady of the Lake (1810). From 1814-1831, Scott published 23 novels, and over the course of his literary career, he wrote review articles for the Edinburgh Review, The Quarterly Review, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, and the Foreign Quarterly Review.--#ebb #esh did write Guy ManneringGuy Mannering;Guy Mannering. Walter Scott. —it is not nearly so like him as WaverleyWaverleyWaverley; or ’Tis Sixty Years Since. Walter Scott. Archibald Constable. 1814. was &was, and the motto is from The Lay.

I am quite happy that you are of my opinion with regard to ScriptureChristian Bible, The Holy Bible.
The sacred scriptures of Christianity consisting of the Old and New Testament.--#alg heroes—heroes; I always think myself so safe when you agree with me. It was howeverwas, however, natural in Mr. HaydonBenjamin Robert Haydon | Born: 1786-01-26 in Plymouth, England. Died: 1846-06-22 in London.
Benjamin Robert Haydon was a painter educated at the Royal Academy, who was famous for contemporary, historical, classical, biblical, and mythological scenes, though tormented by financial difficulties. He painted William Wordsworth’s portrait in 1842. MRM was introduced to him at his London studio in the spring of 1817, and Sir William Elford was a mutual friend. He committed suicide in 1846. English painter and author (1786-1846) Published Autobiography in 3 vols. (1853) John Keats named him in several poems. --#ebb #lmw to wish to draw the bow of Ulysses [8] Penelope set her unwelcome suitors the task of drawing the bow of her missing husband Ulysses/Odysseus and sending an arrow through twelve rings in succession. Proverbial for a nearly-impossible task.—#lmw &and try the subject which has engrossed all the great masters. Mr. Eustace I think it is, I think it is, who has objected to the exaggerated expression of meekness which distinguishes the ChristJesus | Born: 0001. Died: 0034. of the Italian  MastersPainters—painters. In those which I have seen I should rather complain of the entire absence of the expression of Power—Powerpower—power [gap: 1 word, reason: torn.] [latent,] dormant in repose but still Powerpower—still that [gap: 1 word, reason: torn.] [power] which could  with ^ without exertionexertion, with unaltered calmnesscalmness, heal the sick & [gap: 1 word, reason: torn.] [raise] the dead. It would be less absurd to paint a sleeping [gap: 1 word, reason: torn.] [Hercules] without the appearance of strength, than to delineate our SaviourJesus | Born: 0001. Died: 0034. without the expression of Power.—power. No one can so well supply this defect as Mr. HaydonBenjamin Robert Haydon | Born: 1786-01-26 in Plymouth, England. Died: 1846-06-22 in London.
Benjamin Robert Haydon was a painter educated at the Royal Academy, who was famous for contemporary, historical, classical, biblical, and mythological scenes, though tormented by financial difficulties. He painted William Wordsworth’s portrait in 1842. MRM was introduced to him at his London studio in the spring of 1817, and Sir William Elford was a mutual friend. He committed suicide in 1846. English painter and author (1786-1846) Published Autobiography in 3 vols. (1853) John Keats named him in several poems. --#ebb #lmw &, and he is very likely to have done it.〰