Life of Frances Power Cobbe, as told by herself

Life of Frances Power Cobbe, as told by herself

Life of Frances Power Cobbe, as told by herself - with additions by the author, and introduction...
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Author: Cobbe, Frances Power,1822-1904
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Life of Frances Power Cobbe, as told by herself

Life of Frances Power Cobbe, as told by herself

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Life of Frances Power Cobbe, as told by herself

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Author: Cobbe, Frances Power,1822-1904
Format: eBook
Language: English

Life of Frances Power Cobbe, as told by herself - with additions by the author, and introduction by Blanche Atkinson

My life has been an interesting one to live and I hope that this record of it may not prove too dull to read. The days are past when biographers thought it necessary to apologize for the paucity of the adventures which they could recall and the obscurity of the achievements which their heroes might accomplish. We have gone far in the opposite direction, and are wont to relate in extenso details decidedly trivial, and to reproduce in imposing type correspondence which was scarcely worth the postage of the original manuscript. Our sense of the intrinsic interest of Humanity, as depicted either in biography or fiction,that is, of the character of the personages of the drama going on upon our little stage,has continually risen, while that of the action of the piece,the incidents which our fathers chiefly regarded,has fallen into the second plane. I fear I have been guilty in this book of recording many trifling memories and of reproducing some letters of little importance; but only through small touches could a happy childhood and youth be possibly depicted: and all the Letters have, I think, a certain value as relics and tokens of friendship, if not as expressions (as many of them are) of opinions carrying the weight of honoured names. xxviiiAs regards these Letters (exclusively, of course, those of friends and correspondents now dead), I earnestly beg the heirs of the writers to pardon me if I have not asked their permission for the publication of them. To have ascertained, in the first place, who such representatives are and where they might be addressed, would, in many cases, have been a task presenting prohibitive difficulties; and as the contents of the Letters are wholly honourable to the heads and hearts of their authors, I may fairly hope that surviving relatives will be pleased that they should see the light, and will not grudge the testimony they bear to kindly sentiments entertained towards myself.[1] There is in this book of mine a good deal of Old Womans Gossip, (I hope of a harmless sort), concerning many interesting men and women with whom it was my high privilege to associate freely twenty, thirty and forty years ago. But if it correspond at all to my design, it is not only, or chiefly, a collection of social sketches and friendly correspondence. I have tried to make it the true and complete history of a womans existence as seen from within; a real Life, which he who reads may take as representing fairly the joys, sorrows and interests, the powers and limitations, of one of my sex and class in the era which is now drawing xxixto a close. The world when I entered it was a very different place from the world I must shortly quit, most markedly so as regards the position in it of women and of persons like myself holding heterodox opinions, and my experience practically bridges the gulf which divides the English ancien rgime from the new. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 66987
Author: Cobbe, Frances Power
Release Date: Dec 21, 2021
Format: eBook
Language: English

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