From an early age, she demonstrated an eagerness to learn and to read. When she was eleven years old, Harriet read Italy, A Poem by Samuel Rogers
. Between the ages fourteen and seventeen, she...
Family and Intimate relationships
Caroline Frances Cornwallis
The Swiss-born historian and economist Jean-Charles-Léonard Simonde de Sismondi
proposed to CFC
shortly before July 1806, not long after her sister's death and when she was about twenty, but she turned him down. She felt...
Friends, Associates
Caroline Frances Cornwallis
CFC
had a large and diverse group of friends and acquaintances who shared her multitude of interests. Some were scientists, like Michael Faraday
; others were scholars, such as Sismondi
and the orientalist Samuel Birch
Friends, Associates
Caroline Frances Cornwallis
Jean-Charles-Léonard Sismondi
and his sister Serena Forti
(married to an Italian) were both close friends of CFC
and her family. The friendship began with the two mothers, and was cemented by their being all Protestants...
Residence
Caroline Frances Cornwallis
By 30 July 1826 CFC
was almost ready to move into a house lent to her by her good friend Jean-Charles-Léonard Simonde de Sismondi
in Valchiusa, near Pescia in Tuscany, about twenty miles...
Textual Production
Sarah Austin
SA
translated from the French two major scholarly works by Sismondi
, History of the Italian Republics (1832), and A History of the Fall of the Roman Empire published by 12 July 1834.
The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
350 (1834): 513-14
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Texts
Sismondi, Jean-Charles-Léonard Simonde de. A History of the Fall of the Roman Empire. Translator Austin, Sarah, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1834, 2 vols.
Sismondi, Jean-Charles-Léonard Simonde de. A History of the Italian Republics. Translator Austin, Sarah, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1832.