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—Her education—Character of her mother—Housekeeper for her father—The little wench—Meets Ralph Waldo Emerson—His opinion of her—Translates Strauss's Life of Jesus—Removal to London—Contributes to the Westminster Review—Scenes of Clerical Life—Opinion of Thackeray and Dickens—Adam Bede—Marriage to Mr. Lewes—Mill on the Floss—Early religious experiences of the author—Correspondence with Professor Kaufmann—Her receptions described by an American lady—Her dress and appearance—Death of her husband—She marries J. W. Cross—Her death . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| VIII. PRINCESS LOUISE. | ||
Troubles in the palace—The political storm of 1848—Birth of the Princess—Her education—Her artistic temperament—Marries the Marquis of Lorne—His family and lineage—The Princess described by Lord Dufferin—The uses of royalty. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| IX. FANNY MENDELSSOHN. | ||
Her family—Educated with her brother Felix—Her talent for music—Attachment to her brother—Beloved by Wilhelm Hensel—Her early home—Garden parties—A German's observations upon London life—Marriage of Fanny Mendelssohn—Her son Sebastian—Her musical matineés—Success of her compositions—Felix at the Court of Queen Victoria—The Queen sings one of Fanny's songs—Her journey to Italy—Her death. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| X. ANGELICA KAUFMANN. | ||
Her career the subject of a novel by Miss Thackeray—Her education in art—Becomes a fashionable artist at fifteen—Her musical talents—Sir Joshua Reynolds proposes to her—She refuses him—Count Horn's arrival in London—She marries him—Her husband an impostor—The marriage annulled—Her second marriage—Her later pictures—Death of her husband—Her death and funeral . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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