This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ...could be finished. A good deal more material was needed for the illustrations, and to help her in making drawings and notes, she decided to take with her a young niece of hers, Gerardine Bate. The plan by which her dear friend, Elizabeth Barrett, was to have gone with them too, had come to nothing. Mrs ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ...could be finished. A good deal more material was needed for the illustrations, and to help her in making drawings and notes, she decided to take with her a young niece of hers, Gerardine Bate. The plan by which her dear friend, Elizabeth Barrett, was to have gone with them too, had come to nothing. Mrs. Jameson had set her heart on it, but she had learnt that there were difficulties in the way. Miss Barrett's family were against the scheme for one thing, and for another, an attachment, certain to be discountenanced by her father, had sprung up between her and the poet Browning, which would naturally make her unwilling to leave England for the present. Mrs. Jameson had been charmingly thanked by her friend for her kind proposals, and before her departure had received a little note, in which Miss Barrett expressed her sorrow at being unable to come to see her before she left, adding that she was "forced to be satisfied with the sofa and silence." Leaving this friend, therefore, to her usual winter of seclusion, Mrs. Jameson and her niece set out for Italyearly in September, establishing themselves on the way for a few days at Paris. They were diligently at work among the picture galleries there, when a note in Browning's writing arrived from a neighbouring hotel. Mrs. Jameson's delight and amazement at the wonderful news which thus reached her were only equalled by the indefatigable kindness with which she sped to the help of her friends. There was no doubt that they needed help. Mrs. Browning had suffered considerably, both from the journey and from the thought of the cataclysm which she could picture in Wimpole Street. She was now lying prostrated at their hotel, and Browning, in a fever of alarm, clutched with joy at the timely...
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