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Mary Hays : Memoirs of Emma Courtney

'Mrs Robinson... has read your novel, and was very much pleased with the main story; but did not like the conclusion. She thinks the death of Augustus the end of the story and that the husband should have been suffered to die a natural death.'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Mrs Robinson      Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

  

[n/a] : Athenaum

Mrs Robinson's journal of Oct 7 1854, reprinted in the Times June 15 1856: '..we sat and read Athenaums aloud, chatting meanwhile. There was something unusual in his manner,something softer than usual in his tone and eye, but I not what it proceeded from, and chattted gaily, leading the conversation - on Goethe, on women's dresses'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Mrs Robinson      Print: Serial / periodical

 

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