The Lessons of a Life, Harriet Martineau: A Lecture Delivered 11th Mar. 1877 by Florence Fenwick Miller

Author:Florence Fenwick Miller [Miller, Florence Fenwick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781359276278
Goodreads: 31904912
Publisher: Palala Press
Published: 2016-05-24T00:00:00+00:00

Mr. Wordsworth, Mrs. Wordsworth and Miss Fenwick have been quite charmed, affected, and instructed by the invalid's volume. … Mrs. Wordsworth, after a few pages were read, at once pronounced it to be Miss Martineau's production, and concluded that you knew all about it and caused it to be sent hither. In some of the most eloquent parts it stops short of their wishes and expectations: but they all agree that it is a rare book, doing honor to the head and heart of your able and interesting friend. Mr. Wordsworth praised it with more unreserve—I may say, with more earnestness—than is usual with him. The serene and heavenly-minded Miss Fenwick was prodigal of her admiration. But Mrs. Wordsworth's was the crowning praise. She said—and you know how she would say it—"I wish I had read exactly such a book as that years ago!" … It is a genuine and touching series of meditations by an invalid not sick in mind or heart.[10]

From one of the letters with which Mr. Henry G. Atkinson has favored me and my readers, I find that she wrote a chapter for that book, which undoubtedly must have been of the deepest interest, but which was not published.

Letter to Mr. Atkinson.

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