. Journal. , R. Broughton, J. M. Cobban,A. T. Q. Couch, F. M. Crawford, S. R. Crockett, A. J. Dawson,T. (Gallon, M. Hewlett, J. Hocking, E. W. Hornung. D. Lyall, Rita,F. A. Steel, A. S. Swan, K. Tynan, H. Ward, H. B. M. Watson, andI. Zan<rwill. Q UA R TKRL Y JO URN A L 83 The Authoress of ** John Halifax, Gentleman, and •? LinacreGrange, Bootle It may not be generally known to the many admirers ofthe writings of the late Dinah M. Muloch (Mrs. Craik) thatthe gifted authoress of John Halifax, Gentleman, resided withher brother a little over forty years ago at Linacre (orange,Bootle, where she
. Journal. , R. Broughton, J. M. Cobban,A. T. Q. Couch, F. M. Crawford, S. R. Crockett, A. J. Dawson,T. (Gallon, M. Hewlett, J. Hocking, E. W. Hornung. D. Lyall, Rita,F. A. Steel, A. S. Swan, K. Tynan, H. Ward, H. B. M. Watson, andI. Zan<rwill. Q UA R TKRL Y JO URN A L 83 The Authoress of ** John Halifax, Gentleman, and •? LinacreGrange, Bootle It may not be generally known to the many admirers ofthe writings of the late Dinah M. Muloch (Mrs. Craik) thatthe gifted authoress of John Halifax, Gentleman, resided withher brother a little over forty years ago at Linacre (orange,Bootle, where she wrote several of her homely stories, includ-ing A Life for a Life. The * Grange, judging from a faded. Miss Muloch at the Orange. photograph, must have been a delightfully picturesque habita-tion, witli its old-fashioned garden, stocked with ancient fruit this old house, like many another, has had to give place to themore pressing necessities of modern existence, and Bootle knows it nomore. It stood originally on land now in the possession of the Mayorof Bootle (Mr. Alderman Ascroft), an old and esteemed resident of theborough, and his present abode, Linacre House, is closely associatedwith the site of the vanished homestead. S4 BOO TLB FREE LIBRARY In 1858 there appeared in Ghamhers Journal a charming littlesketch from the hand of the antlioress abovenamed entitled BrotherJoiiafhaiis Pet, wherein we are afforded some pleasing word-pictures ofscenes on the Mersey, that noble river upon whose heaving tide the])rosperity of the great city of Liverpool mainly depends. Tlie spaceat our disposal will only j>erniit of a few extracts therefrom ; but theentire sketch merits the at
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