May, Lou & Cass: Jane Austen's Nieces in Ireland by Sophia Hillan

Author:Sophia Hillan [Hillan, Sophia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General, Literary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography, European, Literary, English; Irish; Scottish; Welsh
ISBN: 9780856408687
Publisher: Blackstaff Pr
Published: 2011-12-15T07:03:27+00:00

If you find her in a giving mood, you might as well speak in favour of another charity which I and a few more, have very much at heart — the establishment of a charitable repository at Burton on Trent.— And then, — there is the family of the poor man who was hung last assizes at York, though we really have raised the sum we wanted for putting them all out, yet if you can get a guinea from her on their account, it may as well be done. —12

An important difference, of course, is that Marianne was no proud, cold Lady Denham, but a quiet, graceful and compassionate gentlewoman. Diana Parker, on the other hand, in her overbearing determination to do good, anticipates some of the correspondence between Louisa and Fanny during the Irish famine of the 1840s.

Through all her years in England, Marianne’s nature generally predisposed her to see the point of view of others, even if she did not agree with it. A curious story, from Charles’s diary of October 1835, demonstrates Marianne’s steady, uncondescending common sense:

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