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after suffering strokes; she had had some years of mental incapacity which sounds like Alzheimer's disease.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Mary Russell Mitford
MRM
's mother, Mary Russell
, was a Hampshire rector's daughter and distant connection of the noble Dukes of Bedford, who was married shortly after inheriting a fortune of £28,000.
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Pigrome, Stella. “Mary Russell Mitford”. The Charles Lamb Bulletin, Vol.
66
, Charles Lamb Society, Apr. 1989, pp. 53-62.
53
When the family was...
Friends, Associates
Frances Trollope
Frances's earliest friendships were forged with intelligent young women like herself, such as Marianne Gabell
, a headmaster's daughter. She also socialized with older women, including Mrs George Mitford
, the mother of Mary Russell Mitford