A Book of Sibyls: Miss Barbauld, Miss Edgeworth, Mrs Opie, Miss Austen

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Anne Thackeray Ritchie. A Book of Sibyls: Miss Barbauld, Miss Edgeworth, Mrs Opie, Miss Austen

A Book of Sibyls: Miss Barbauld, Miss Edgeworth, Mrs Opie, Miss Austen

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PREFACE

A BOOK OF SIBYLS

MRS. BARBAULD

MISS EDGEWORTH

MRS OPIE

JANE AUSTEN

FOOTNOTES

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Anne Thackeray Ritchie

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One of the letters to Miss Belsham is thus dated:—'The 14th of July, in the village of Palgrave (the pleasantest village in all England), at ten o'clock, all alone in my great parlour, Mr. Barbauld being studying a sermon, do I begin a letter to my dear Betsy.'

'Dr. Enfield's face,' she declares, 'is grown half a foot longer since I saw him, with studying mathematics, and for want of a game of romps; for there are positively none now at Warrington but grave matrons. I who have but half assumed the character, was ashamed of the levity of my behaviour.'

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