Foster, Mrs E. M. Frederic and Caroline, or the Fitzmorris Family. William Lane, Minerva-Press .
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Mrs E. M. Foster:
Frederic and Caroline, or the Fitzmorris Family, 1800, another novel in two volumes, tells the story of the Fitzmorris family (with two generations of Frederics and Carolines). Its attribution gives it to the author of Rebecca, Judith, and Miriam, and like Emily of Lucerne it is dedicated to the Princess of Wales . In an interesting Preface the author apologizes for using quotations without attribution, but she implies that books are inaccessible to her: she says she is fixed in a spot where literary amusement must be purchased, and when, she enquires, did the purse of an Authoress overflow with cash? It would be a mistake to read too much into this about Foster's life, but it is interesting that in a year when she published four books, she constructs a narrator who complains of the low proceeds that writing brings. The novel also has a scene set in the
. The novel opens in 1798, with the description of a mysterious and melancholy man known as Sandford who has purchased an estate in Cornwall. He befriends the local rector, Mr Godfrey, and his two children, Emma and Frederic. The Godfreys turn out to be the family of his sister, who had been disowned for marrying beneath her and who has long since died. Godfrey and Sandford are delighted to find each other, and Sandford undertakes to offer support for Godfrey's two children. Sandford's melancholy is revealed to be the result of a disastrous marriage to a wife who eloped with another man. She took their baby but left behind two older daughters, who then died of smallpox. His wife, long since repentant, has raised their daughter Caroline to be virtuous, and Frederic Godfrey has fallen in love with her, without of course knowing their connection. Caroline's mother insists that Caroline renounce Frederic until her death, and their separation is further complicated by the unscrupluous behavior of Caroline's other suitor, Mr Mortimer, who lies and bribes servants to effect the estrangement of the lovers.
Elizabeth Freke
She had been in labour 4 or 5, five, days, attended by her aunt, her sister Lady Norton, four midwives, Lady Thynne (probably the mother of
, later Viscount Weymouth, rather than his wife the literary patron), and a man-midwife. The latter was convinced the child was dead, and was putting on his butchers habitt to apply instruments for cutting it up inside the womb and so removing it, when my greatt and good God thatt never failed me (or deneyed my reasonable request) raised me up a good woman midwife, who had been recommended by Lady Thynne. She worked for two or three hours to deliver
. The child appeared dead, hurt wth severall greatt holes in his head (made by the midwives' efforts); but he revived to be baptised that evening with her father's name. A month later he was again thought to be dead (and was removed from his mother to prepare for burial), but again recovered. At six months old he had his leg accidentally broken by a nurse who managed to keep this fact a secret for nearly three months, but eventually he recovered from his lameness also. He even survived smallpox at the age of ten.
Oliver Goldsmith
survived a bout of smallpox as a child, and was left deeply scarred.
Anne Grant
The finished work, published in 1808, begins with a sketch of the history of what became New York State, and continues to cover a good deal of political and historical matters. In the second volume the autobiographical emerges, in detail of
's childhood reading habits and her developing relationship with her previously unknown father. In addition to the description of Schuyler's life, AG's memoirs incorporate the history of Albany, New York, and the nearby
native settlement, including comment on
, sovereign of the Five Nations. She consistently praises and defends the Mohawks, those interesting and deeply reflecting natives,those generous tribes . . . those valuable allies. The lurking ambivalence of her positions is indicated by the way she insists that the Mohawks are not like other Indians, and again in her calling their language indeed . . . noble and copious—especially considering that it served as the vehicle of thought to a people whose ideas and sphere of action we should consider as so very confined. She introduces her passage on women in Indian society (at one point she uses the phrase [a]n Indian or native American) with a quotation from
writing on Vienna as a paradise for old women; this emphasizes her point about the respect shown in native American society towards older women (those who have given birth to a warrior) although she also insists on the Mohawk women's perpetual drudgery and the slavish employments considered beneath the dignity of the men, to which she says they are confined until they qualify for respect. She discusses the various visits of Native American dignitaries to England, denies that Indians are indolent though she accepts that they are drunken. She shows a political grasp of the forces acting on them: she entitles one chapter Means by which the Independence of the Indians was first diminished. These means included the trading relationship and the introduction of alcohol. The Mohawks, she notes, considered drink and smallpox as a moral and a physical plague which we had introduced among them, for which our arts, our friendship, and even our religion, were a very inadequate recompence. The Indians, she says, should shame us Christians.
Christian Gray
Christian was still a child when she went blind, probably as a result of the smallpox attack which scarred her badly. When she was in her twenties or thirties, the suggestion was made that she should apply for admission to the
at Edinburgh, and she got so far as to write a sketch of her life apparently designed for selectors. It is not clear whether or not she actually applied; in any event, she never entered the Asylum. Though as a young woman she could walk outdoors unaided, later in life (still in her forties) she had difficulty walking.
Maria Grey
contracted smallpox, but survived.
Elizabeth Griffith
The Delicate Distress charts the direction for all
's three novels: it shows a wife suffering emotional distress and behaving impeccably. Emily, Lady Woodville, the novel's sentimental centre, exchanges letters with her elder sister,
(a wise and loving counsellor to a wide circle), about her anxiety when her husband's former mistress, a worthless marchioness, reappears in their lives and shows every sign of luring him into adulterous love. A whole series of subordinate and inset plots anatomise the various levels of happy and unhappy marriage, for purposes of comparison. In the end Lady Woodville's unwavering goodness and her refusal to blame her husband win him back. Social topics debated among the characters include philosophy, comparison of male with female friendship, the question whether ladies, in general, wrote better, in the epistolary stile, than men, the question of inoculation against smallpox (women, it seems, need immense courage to face inoculating either their children or themselves, while men need to be protected by ignorance of the whole matter), and what a virtuous woman ought to do if she ceases to love her husband. Inset stories include the particularly moving one of Charlotte Beauchamp, who entered a convent after her lover Lord Seymour killed her brother in a duel: Lucy and I, read, and wept, by turns—When one of us began to falter, the other endeavoured to relieve her; but there were many passages, that neither of us could repeat aloud, and only gazed silently on, through the dim medium of our tears.
Mary Agnes Hamilton
's mother, born
but later called Margaret by her husband, was lovely, but completely uninterested in her own looks. She had been under eleven when her Irish Home Ruler father died of smallpox at barely forty leaving seven children. A wealthy Mrs Winkworth from Bolton offered a job as companion to her daughter, and since none of her elder sisters would consent to leave home, Daisy took the job. She left her noisy, talented, egalitarian, undisciplined home for one which was regulated, disciplined, enlightened, rich, comfortable, ugly. But this different household also had something to teach her, and her employer,
, became her patron and friend, and sent her as a student to
. After this Daisy took a post as a botany teacher at the
. She worked there until she met her future husband, whom she married in 1881.
Jane Harvey
The title-page quotes
.
uses a more elaborate style in this novel than formerly. It centres on Matilda, daughter of the widowed Earl of Colchester, and on Mrs Clarendon, the widow of a colonel, who at the outset of the novel is engaged as Matilda's governess and mother-figure. This gossipy, domestic, upper-class novel covers two generations and deals with child-rearing issues such as inoculation for smallpox.
Ann Hatton
This does not exhaust the list of her relatives who were earning their living on the stage.
was, however, on bad terms with most of them from an early age. She felt herself to be the rejected member of the family, because she had a limp and a squint, and carried the scars of smallpox.
Caroline Herschel
She was left (in her own words) totally disfigured, with some damage to her left eye, by an attack of smallpox when she was four years old, of which a younger brother died..
Lucy Hutchinson
On the day her marriage contract with John Hutchinson was signed,
went down with smallpox. She lost her looks at least temporarily, but kept her suitor.
Kathleen E. Innes
In this work
catalogues some of the projects sponsored by the Health Organization of the League of Nations (which was later, on 22 July 1946, absorbed into the
). Especially she looks at research into, and programmes for, the prevention and treatment of cholera, tuberculosis, malaria, typhus, smallpox, enteric and dengue fevers, leprosy, cancer, and other diseases and epidemics.
Anne Irwin
's first husband,
, died of smallpox before the couple could sail, as planned, for Barbados.
Elizabeth Jenkins
published another novel, Brightness, with a leading character modelled on an uncle she had never known,
, who had gone to India as a missionary and died young of smallpox in 1898.
Samuel Johnson
Misella (one of many women whose struggles are foregrounded in the Rambler though the medium of fictitious female correspondents) was first seduced by a man she trusted, and has since known the depths of poverty. She proposes that London prostitutes should be shipped to the colonies to make a fresh start. Another imaginary correspondent, Victoria, who loses her beauty by smallpox after being brought up by her mother to value herself exclusively on that, is finally reasoned out of her despair by another woman, who convinces her that she is a being born to know, to reason, and to act. The Victoria papers were later reprinted by
in The Female Reader.
Isabella Kelly
This novel opens in a village containing the gothic priory of Ruthinglenne, in one of the richest and most luxuriant counties in the northern part of England. The heroine, Benigna, is the daughter of a soldier (Benignus) whose choice of career killed his mother with grief, and who comes home only long enough for his pregnant wife to give birth before both depart to war. The baby is brought up by her clergyman grandfather. (Her inoculation for smallpox at six months is treated in detail; she is thought in some danger, but survives.) When she is four, her grandfather goes mad as a delayed reaction to her father's death in a duel. After the deaths of both her grandfather and her guardian, her marriage to Lord Ruthinglenne is prevented by the dramatic warning of an admonitory ghost. Her various sufferings before the happy ending include being drugged and abducted to a brothel.
Hannah Kilham
She died when expected to recover, having already, after inoculation for smallpox, recovered when expected to die.
Anne Killigrew
died of smallpox at her
's lodgings near Westminster Abbey.
Mary Lamb, 1764 - 1847
Charles was in some sense the upwardly-mobile member of the family. Although he toiled as a clerk or office-worker, which he hated, he also worked as a journalist and later as an essayist, and from his schooldays onwards he made literary friends. He remained extremely close to the sister who had been his nurse, teacher, companion and example. He suffered as a child from what was probably polio and from smallpox which nearly killed him. He developed before he went to school a severe stammer which remained through his adult life, along with general puniness and near-lameness. At
he endured harsh discipline and corporal punishment but delighted in membership of a community from which he brought away lifelong friendships. He grew up to be an intellectual and an eccentric, holding strong views on the importance of a gentility defined not by birth but manners, and on the gallantry and deferential respect due from men to women.
Margaret Laurence
's childbirth experiences were not propitious. Her daughter was delivered by forceps (at the
in London, UK) after a 36-hour labour, and the delivery cracked the baby's collar-bone—a not unusual occurrence,
was assured. The bone healed within ten days. Jocelyn lived through a greater danger at two months, when her smallpox and yellow fever injections, for Africa, were administered too close together and in the wrong order. The baby went into convulsions, while the doctor concerned (who was angry with Laurence for insisting on continuing to breast-feed while her daughter was severely ill in hospital) ascribed the convulsions to either a congenital tendency or else meningitis. Two years later another doctor admitted that the first had been at fault. When Laurence got pregnant in Ghana a pregnancy test falsely registered negative, netting her a diagnosis of neurotic, and after that she had two false labours before managing a swift natural childbirth, assisted by a reassuring black midwife. A white nursing sister spoiled the experience slightly by forcing her to eat while in labour although she said she would throw up, which she duly did.
Charlotte Lennox
At some time during her youth she suffered from a bout of smallpox which left her badly marked.
Alice Dixon Le Plongeon
The Le Plongeons began their work by forming relationships with the residents, learning Yucatec Maya, and immersing themselves in the culture, seeing their ability to communicate with the living Maya as an important step to interpreting the past.
kept a detailed diary of their experiences as they travelled from town to town, and they took photographs of people and places at every stop. When they received news of a nearby outbreak of smallpox, they began to vaccinate the people in each town as well, at the request of the governor of Mérida, who could not afford to pay a doctor to do this.
in particular spent time photographing the women of Yucatán and learning about their way of life. She even taught a singing lesson at a school for young girls.
Judith Cowper Madan
Pattison died of smallpox in July this year, aged about twenty-one. Subscribers to his posthumous poems included
,
,
,
,
, and
. This text of Abelard to Eloisa is slightly garbled in the Pattison volume, presumably in transcription from manuscript. A better text is the one reprinted with Madan's name to close the 11th edition of
's translated Letters of Abelard and Heloise, 1773. The phrase glowing Heart (1773) clearly fits the mood of the poem better than gloomy Heart (1727), and rack'd Soul in the final line is a better reading than wreck'd Soul. Pope's poem had been added to Letters of Abelard and Heloise in the edition of 1760, and that and Madan's were reprinted in later editions both English and Latin. Other writers (at least four of them) responded to Pope's poem with independent compositions sharing the same title as
's. Hers is shaped in part by her relationship with
, in which she combined the roles of protégée, disciple, and admirer. Madan's poem circulated widely in manuscript. Among those who collected it was someone in the family of the seventeenth-century poet
, who copied most of it into the album containing Pulter's surviving poetic oeuvre.
Delarivier Manley
When they parted she fell gravely ill. Possibly this was the occasion in her youth when she had smallpox. This left her badly marked, though she said later that she had little beauty to spoil.