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Lady Harriet Cavendish and Lady Georgiana Morpeth

  

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Lady Harriet Cavendish and Lady Georgiana Morpeth : 

Lady Harriet Cavendish to her mother, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire (September 1804): 'My sister and I finished the 3rd volume of Cowper yesterday. I am enthusiastic about him, and if there was anybody like him alive, I should certainly be [italics]very poorly[end italics], as Sir John Shelley calls it. He is one of the few persons who have as much heart as head, and more of either than dozens of [italics]existing[end italics] men, who dispute his having had at least the latter.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Harriet Cavendish and Lady Georgiana Morpeth     Print: Book

  

Lady Harriet Cavendish and Lady Georgiana Morpeth : 

Lady Harriet Cavendish to her mother, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, 15 October 1804: 'We have finished Cowper and have begun to read Charles the Vth.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Harriet Cavendish and Lady Georgiana Morpeth     Print: Book

  

Lady Harriet Cavendish and Lady Georgiana Morpeth : 'Charles the Vth'

Lady Harriet Cavendish to her mother, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, 15 October 1804: 'We have finished Cowper and have begun to read Charles the Vth.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Harriet Cavendish and Lady Georgiana Morpeth     Print: Book

  

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