. Portrait gallery of eminent men and women of Europe and America. With biographies. •J^ifil. /*^/^^/^ LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON. 245 get through a hundred volumes or soof Cookes widely circulated pocketedition of the English Poets andNovelists—a series which, doubtlessamong many other children of genius,gave great delight in their boyhood toLeigh Hunt, and Dickens. She seems to have taken a particu-lar interest in the heroic virtues of thecharacters in Plutarch, aflPecting an es-pecial fondness for the Spartans, witha natural inclination of her generousnature to their self-sacrificing
. Portrait gallery of eminent men and women of Europe and America. With biographies. •J^ifil. /*^/^^/^ LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON. 245 get through a hundred volumes or soof Cookes widely circulated pocketedition of the English Poets andNovelists—a series which, doubtlessamong many other children of genius,gave great delight in their boyhood toLeigh Hunt, and Dickens. She seems to have taken a particu-lar interest in the heroic virtues of thecharacters in Plutarch, aflPecting an es-pecial fondness for the Spartans, witha natural inclination of her generousnature to their self-sacrificing Robinson Crusoe she had a genu-ine boys rather than girls liking,probably encouraged by her fathersearly seafaring life. For weeks afterreading that book, she subsequentlywrote, • I lived as in a dream; indeed,I scarcely dreamt of anj^hing else atnight. I went to sleep with the cave,its parrots, and goats, floating beforemy closed eyes. I awakened in somerapid flight from the savages landingin theii canoes. The elms in ourhedsres were not more familiar thanthe prickly shrubs which
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