. Life and art of Richard Mansfield : with selections from his letters. FACSIMILE OF MANSFIELDS NOTES FOR THIS LIFE A TROUBLED CHILDHOOD 35 and injurious. His mother had sporadic momentsof maternal tenderness, but from the first she wascapricious and exigent, and he lived more or less atodds with her. His singularity, his precocity, andhis exceptional talents,—early displayed,—no doubt,at times, pleased her; but she was unstable andof many moods; capable of affection, capable alsoof severity. Originality of character or superiorityof mind asserting itself in childhood, sometimesoffends more th
. Life and art of Richard Mansfield : with selections from his letters. FACSIMILE OF MANSFIELDS NOTES FOR THIS LIFE A TROUBLED CHILDHOOD 35 and injurious. His mother had sporadic momentsof maternal tenderness, but from the first she wascapricious and exigent, and he lived more or less atodds with her. His singularity, his precocity, andhis exceptional talents,—early displayed,—no doubt,at times, pleased her; but she was unstable andof many moods; capable of affection, capable alsoof severity. Originality of character or superiorityof mind asserting itself in childhood, sometimesoffends more than it pleases,—as shown so wellin the novel of Jane Eyre. Mansfield, dis-tinctively original and peculiar, in maturity as wellas in youth, inspired aversion in the minds of per-sons who could not comprehend him. An Eng-lish governess, in whose charge he was at one timeplaced, when a child, seems to have been especiallyunkind to him. Indulging in reminiscence, heafforded to me an instructive glimpse alike of hisboyhood and his character. I was, he said, some-tim
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