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Mary Masters : To Marinda at Parting
May heavenly Angels their soft wings display And guide you safe thro' ev'ry dangerous way In every step may you most happy be And tho far distant often think of me [some differences from the original]
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sophia
George Crabbe : Tales in verse
'My eldest girl begins to read well and enters as well into the humour as into the sentiment of your admirable descriptions of human life'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sophia Scott Print: Book
Hester Lynch Thrale : [translation of Voltaire's 'A Madame de Chatelet']
'having shewed her [Sophia Streatfield] the other day three Translations of a few Verses written by Voltaire She immediately guessed one of them to be mine, and pitched upon the right. The Verses are very like some in Parnell, but rather better in my Opinion' [the translation of 'A Madame de Chatelet' follows]
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Sophia Streatfield Print: Book
[n/a] : Bible (New Testament)
ms journal of Sophia de C-, one of the ladies of the visiting Society for Newgate, entry dated 1 May 1817: '[school room] about twenty young women rose on our entrance and stood with their eyes cast to the ground. A young woman of respectable appearance, had offered herself as mistress, for keeping the young children in order; who were separated from their parents' words and placed in this room. I gave those who wished it permission to read to me, several could both read and write, some could say their letters, and others were in total ignorance, they wept as I asked them questions, and I read to them the parable of the prodigal son, as being particularly applicable to their present situation, they then resumed their needlework.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sophia de C Print: Book
[n/a] : Bible (New Testament)
ms journal of Sophia de C-, one of the ladies of the visiting Society for Newgate, entry dated 1 May 1817: 'We next proceeded to the sick ward (it was in good order) and took a list of additional clothes wanted there, and read a chapter from the New Testament, we then bade adieu to this dismal abode'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sophia de C Print: Book
[n/a] : Bible
ms journal of Sophia de C-, one of the ladies of the visiting Society for Newgate, entry dated 24 May 1817: 'I read to Woodman, who is not in the state of mind we could wish for her, indeed, so unnatural is her situation, that one can hardly tell how or in what manner to meet her case'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sophia de C Print: Book
J. G. Lockhart : Peter's Letters to his Kinsfolk
'Peter's Letters to his Kinsfolk was written by [J. G.] Lockhart, aided probably by one or more [...] clever young advocates [...] Sophia probably knew who its author was, and judged it favourably'.
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