. Portrait gallery of eminent men and women of Europe and America. With biographies. born. She early exhibited unusual mentalacuteness. An invalid friend andneighbor taught her the alphabet,throwing the letters upon the floorand giving her a reward when shepicked out the one called for; andthis reward, a trait of her disinterest-edness through life, she invariablybrought home to her brother. In hersixth year she attended a school inHans Place, kept by a Miss Rowdeu, alady poetess, who subsequently becameCountess St. Quentin. After a fewmonths at this place, she Avas takenby her parents to a ne
. Portrait gallery of eminent men and women of Europe and America. With biographies. born. She early exhibited unusual mentalacuteness. An invalid friend andneighbor taught her the alphabet,throwing the letters upon the floorand giving her a reward when shepicked out the one called for; andthis reward, a trait of her disinterest-edness through life, she invariablybrought home to her brother. In hersixth year she attended a school inHans Place, kept by a Miss Rowdeu, alady poetess, who subsequently becameCountess St. Quentin. After a fewmonths at this place, she Avas takenby her parents to a new residence inthe country, Trevor Park, at EastBarnet, where her education fell intothe hands of her cousin, Miss Landon,who appears to have introduced herto a comjjaratively learned course ofreading, including such works as thehistories of Eollin, Hume and Smol-lett, Plutarchs Lives, Josephus, Dob-sons Petrarch, with what was prob;:-bly a pleasant relief, the fables of Gayand ^sop. Novels were forbidden;but, it is said, notwithstanding thisprohibition, that the child managed to.
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