81. Bassano, Ltd Photograph Collection Mitford, Miss Rosemary Mitford, The Honorable Unity Valkyrie Mollison, Mr.JA Mond, Lady Alfred Mond, Mrs. Henry Monkman, Mrs. Dorothy Monkman, Phyllis http://www.library.temple.edu/collections/urbana/pc59.htm

URBAN ARCHIVES Bassano, Ltd. Photographs, ca. 1920-1939 (PC-59) Formal portraits produced by Bassano, Ltd, a society photographer in London, England, and provided to the Public Ledger newspaper in Philadelphia. Includes members of European nobility, English government officials, sports celebrities, theatrical performers, and prominent citizens including Americans visiting England. Photographs are generally accompanied by biographical sketches. INVENTORY Box 1 Abelson, Iris Aberdare, Lord Aberdeen, Marchioness Abernathy, Romaine Le Moyne Abyssinia, Ras Tafari Acton, Marie Acton, Peline Adeane, Helena Agar, Lady Caroline, Agar, Lady Georgina Aitken, Peter Aitken, William Maxwell Alba, Duchess of Albani, Mme. Albanesi, Miss Meggie Aldrich-Blake, Danie Louisa Allardyce, Lady William Allen, Commandant Mary S. Allenby, Field Marshal Viscount Allendale, Viscountess Alman, Miss Elaine Amery, John Amery, Mrs. L.S. Anderson, J.C. Annesley, Countess of Annesley, Countess Pricilla Annesley, Miss Sheila

82. The Shuttle By Francis Hodgson Burnett: Chapter X. "Is Lady Anstruthers At Home? It was the England of Constable and Morland, of Miss Mitford and Miss Austen, The village street might be Miss Mitford s, the wellto-do house Jane http://www.online-literature.com/burnett/shuttle/10/

Home Author Index Shakespeare The Bible ... Chapter X. "Is Lady Anstruthers at Home?" Chapter X. "Is Lady Anstruthers at Home?" All that she had brought with her to England, combined with what she had called "sophistication," but which was rather her exquisite appreciation of values and effects, she took with her when she went the next day to Charing Cross Station and arranged herself at her ease in the railway carriage, while her maid bought their tickets for Stornham. Yes, it was EnglandEngland. It was the England of Constable and Morland, of Miss Mitford and Miss Austen, the Brontes and George Eliot. The land which softly rolled and clothed itself in the rich verdure of many trees, sometimes in lovely clusters, sometimes in covering copse, was Constable's; the ripe young woman with the fat-legged children and the farmyard beasts about her, as she fed the hens from the wooden piggin under her arm, was Morland's own. The village street might be Miss Mitford's, the well-to-do house Jane Austen's own fancy, in its warm brick and comfortable decorum. She laughed a little as she thought it. "That is American," she said, "the habit of comparing every stick and stone and breathing thing to some literary parallel. We almost invariably say that things remind us of pictures or booksmost usually books. It seems a little crude, but perhaps it means that we are an intensely literary and artistic people."

83. T. Tembarom - Chapter 23 - Francis Hodgson Burnett - Read Print Americans had not appeared upon the horizon in Miss Mitford s time, or in MissAusten s, or in the Brontes the type not having entirely detached itself http://www.readprint.com/chapter-1062/Francis-Hodgson-Burnett

84. Charlotte's 'Jane Eyre', Elizabeth's 'Aurora Leigh' In August she again wrote to Miss Mitford Since your question, Miss Mitfordhad written to say that she preferred Shirley to Jane Eyre. http://www.florin.ms/bronte.html

Florin Website Julia Bolton Holloway , 2003; Essay originally published in CHARLOTTE'S JANE EYRE AND ELIZABETH'S AURORA LEIGH E ssential to our understanding of the Victorian era are the novels read and written by women. The attitude of most men towards these books could be, however, scornful. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, for all her masculine learning in Greek, Hebrew and Chaldean, loved novel reading. She admitted defensively to Robert Browning, clouding her confession in an acceptable archaism: ' I am very fond of romances ; yes! . . . I am one who could have forgotten the plague, listening to Boccaccio's stories; and I am not ashamed of it'. In those letters written in her Wimpole Street sickroom days, she and Robert duelled with poetic erudition and Elizabeth, though she declared she was not ashamed, finally confessed to her obsession for novels as if it were a weakness as culpable as her opium addiction. Robert cuttingly did not respond to her enthusiasm for the genre. She particularly admired George Sand - of whom Robert could not approve. He had written scathingly of Sand's Consuelo in the Letters, August 14, 1845: 'I shall tell you frankly that it strikes me as precisely what in conventional language with the customary silliness is styled a

85. Neighbors Of Mitford Mitford, a quaint village in the Blue Ridge mountains, is chock full of quirky by Miss Read With this delightful story of the Cotswold village and its http://www.answerpoint.org/reading_room/book_list.asp?sort=101&list=307

86. A COUNTRY CAMERA 1844-1914 By Gordon Winter The Following Names Merioneth in 1870 Lilian LEACH 26 Fiancee of Alfred Hutton in 1892 Canon RCMacLEOD 27 Vicar of Mitford NBL in 1897 Miss Brenda MacLEOD 91 Leader of http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/Indexes/CAMERA.txt

87. Hill: Jane Austen Miss Mitford s grandfather, Dr. Russell, was Page 24 rector of Ashe, nearSteventon, Miss Mitford loved to write of a small compact community, http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/hill/austen/homes03.html

"Chapter III." by Constance Hill From: (John Lane The Bodley Head, 1901) by Constance Hill. [Page 23] CHAPTER III STEVENTON "Love and Joy and friendly Mirth Bless this roof, these walls, this hearth." WE are soon again at Steventon, and now, whilst sketches of the manor house and of the church are progressing, I will glance through my notebooks, and endeavour to realise the conditions of life in Steventon Parsonage more than a hundred years ago. Jane Austen, who, as many of us are aware, was born on December 16, 1775, passed the greater part of her life in Hampshire, first at Steventon and afterwards at Chawton. Just twelve years later than this date, on the same day of the same month, and in the same county, a sister authoress was born. The two writers never met, but we shall find that they frequently cross and recross each other's path - a fortunate circumstance indeed, for the writings of Mary Russell Mitford often describe the surroundings of Jane Austen. Miss Mitford's grandfather, Dr. Russell, was [Page 24] rector of Ashe, near Steventon, and her mother, before her marriage, was acquainted with the Austen family, although Jane herself was then only a child. Mary Russell Mitford's path in literature is much more confined than that of her greater contemporary, but it is pleasant to see that the two writers approached their art in the same spirit and chose the same setting or background for their stories, a background which was familiar to both.

88. Hill: Jane Austen Thither Miss Mitford went as a pupil in 1798. Many of the traditions of the We read in Miss Mitford s Life Before the pupils went home at Easter or http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/hill/austen/homes04.html

"Chapter IV." by Constance Hill From: (John Lane The Bodley Head, 1901) by Constance Hill. [Page 33] CHAPTER IV THE ABBEY SCHOOL "The ancient monastery's halls, A solemn pile." THE same writer, who gives us the description of Steventon Parsonage and its inhabitants, speaks of a school at Reading, to which, at an earlier date, her aunts Cassandra and Jane were sent. The school adjoined the remains of the ancient Abbey of Reading, and was called the Abbey School. It was kept by a Madame Latournelle, an Englishwoman, but widow of a Frenchman. "This school at Reading," writes Miss F. C. Lefroy, "was rather a free and easy one judging by Mrs. Sherwood's account of it when she was there some years later (than the Austens), and when several French were among its masters. In Cassandra and Jane's days the girls do not seem to have been kept very strictly, as they and their cousin, Jane Cooper, were allowed to accept [Page 34] an invitation to dine at an inn with their respective brothers, Edward Austen and Edward Cooper." We seem to see the merry faces of the five young people and to hear their eager chatter as they sat at table in the old-fashioned inn parlour enjoying their holiday feast! Jane was very young at that time, for she was sent to school

89. The Letter "B" *Bertram Baron of Mitford, Roger born about 1126 died 117 2 *Bertram, Roger bornabout 1176 *Bethuwe, Miss van born about 0906 Bethuwe, The Netherlands http://www.mathematical.com/bbbb.html

B Return to Alphabet Index Baalun, Adeliza Lucia de born about 1099 Baalun, Dreux I de born about 1006 Baalun, Dreux II de born about 1025 died about 1080 Baalun, Emma (Berta?) de born about 1067 Baalun, Eunice de born about 1050 Baardsson, Hergils born about 0638 Badlesmere, Bartholomew de Badlesmere, Bartholomew (or Giles) de died 1301 Badlesmere, Sir Bartholomew 1st Lord de born about 1275 died 14 April 1322 Badlesmere, Elizabeth de born about 1313 died 8 June 1356 Badlesmere, Gunceline de Badlesmere Justicar of Chester, Guncelin (Gunselm) de born about 1232 died 1284 Badlesmere, Margery de died 1344/47 Baeldaeg Bagod Bagot de Stafford, Hervey born about 1140 died before 25 August 1214 Bailleul, Reginald de Bailleul, Joye de born about 1140 Baladon, Joyce of born about 0903 Balbus, Atia died in 0043 BC Balbus, Marcus Atius Balbus, Marcus Atius born 0148 BC died 0087 BC Balderic Ball, Mary born about 1679 Balleme, Guillaume II Talvas Comte de born about 0998died about 1048 born about 965 died 1028 Balliol, Ada Baliol, Amabel born about 1136 died before1225 Balliol, Bernard II de

90. Postings On The Board But Miss Mitford, in her Recollections of a Literary Life , Miss Mitfordsaid, that her mother had said, that when (the mother) had lived in the http://www.ashton-dennis.org/post1199.html

Cheryl - flogging a dead horse To All, I'm going to flog the dead carcass a little big more and say that the New York Times review of Mansfield Park may provide a somewhat more balanced view of the new film.  At least the reviewer seems to have read either the book itself or the Cliffs Notes and have some knowledge of JA's life.   One of the main problems with movie reviews is often the complete ignorance of the writer:  I read one review of Sense and Sensibility that described the novel as a forward thinking attack on Victorian morals!  And Jane Eyre as having been written in the 17th century.  None of the reviews (of MP) I've read previously gave any indication that reviewer knew anything more about the novels of JA than who starred in the film versions. Okay, I'm going to say something that may appear to be a 180 degree flip flop from what I've been writing, but bear with me if I can remain coherent I should end up back at my original point, more or less.  The reviewer says at one point: "...Ms Rozema has added a few more startling revisionist touches like sex."

91. The Light In The Clearing - Chapter V (By Irving Bacheller) tales by Washington Irving and James K. Paulding and Nathaniel Hawthorne andMiss Mitford and Miss Austin; the poems of John Milton and Felicia Hemans. http://www.authorama.com/light-in-the-clearing-7.html

The Light in the Clearing By Irving Bacheller Presented by Auth o rama Public Domain Books Chapter V IN THE LIGHT OF THE CANDLES I remember that I tried to walk and talk like Silas Wright after that day. He had a way of twisting little locks of his hair between his thumb and finger when he sat thinking. I practised that trick of his when I was alone and unobserved. At first we had only The Horse Farrier, The Cattle Book, The Story of the Indian Wars St. Lawrence Republican were always with us. I remember vividly that evening when we took out the books and tenderly felt their covers and read their titles. There were and ; tales by Washington Irving and James K. Paulding and Nathaniel Hawthorne and Miss Mitford and Miss Austin; the poems of John Milton and Felicia Hemans. Of the treasures in the box I have now; in my possession: A life of Washington, The Life and Writings of Doctor Duckworth The Stolen Child Rosine Laval Sermons and Essays , by William Ellery Channing. We found in the box, also, thirty numbers of the United States Magazine and Democratic Review and sundry copies of the New York Mirror Aunt Deel began with The Stolen Child . She read slowly and often paused for comment or explanation or laughter or to touch the corner of an eye with a corner of her handkerchief in moments when we were all deeply moved by the misfortunes of our favorite characters, which were acute and numerous. Often she stopped to spell out phrases of French or Latin, whereupon Uncle Peabody would exclaim:

92. Annie And James Fields And Works By The Authors They Knew On CD ROM, From B&R Sa The History of TipTop; Miss Katy-Did and Miss Cricket; Mother Magpie s Mischief Miss Mitford (Mary Russell Mitford) (1787-1855). Our Village http://www.samizdat.com/fieldscd.html

Annie and James Fields and Works by the Authors They Knew Skip the explanation and go straight to the table of contents This Web page shows the table of contents of our CD "Annie and James Fields and Works by Authors They Knew", with 172 books. Internal links will take you to the various sections, but you cannot get to the books themselves here on the Web. For that you need the CD. seltzer@samizdat.com From the preface written for this edition by Mark Schorr: "Annie Fields (1834-1915) was at the center of New England literary life after the Civil War. From her privileged perch as the wife of James Fields, the publisher of America's leading poets, as the biographer of Harriet Beecher Stowe, nineteenth century America's best selling author, and as the friend and companion of Sarah Orne Jewett, Annie Fields seems to have been destined for fame. However, her literary reputation, like that of Zora Neale Hurston, has lagged somewhat behind the quality of her work. ... today Annie Fields' work has been often out of print except in expensive editions. "Were Fields alive today, she would make a marvelous narrator of the American experience. The voice that we hear as we read her work reminds us of a time when great critics were also great friends, and when the best tour guides through our literature were the authors themselves."

93. Internet Camelot: Internet Trends, Ebooks, Business On The Web Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Harriet Beecher Stowe, Whittier, Tennyson, Thackeray,Hawthorne, Dickens, Wordsworth, Miss Mitford, and Barry Cornwall. http://www.samizdat.com/

The once and future Internet: Here you'll see the Internet the way it was and should be: useful information for free, with no annoying graphics or glitz. This site is designed to provide maximum content for minimum clicks. Browse the links listed below or use the "find" function in your browser to navigate through this index page. Check our sitemap page www.samizdat.com/sitemap.html from which you can get to any other page at this site in one click. Or search within our site using the Google Sitesearch box at the bottom of every page. For more information about our site, see the bottom of this page . Enjoy, and please spread the word. Contents of this page: Internet-on-a-Disk (free blog-like newsletter) Books on CD and DVD Business on the Internet Education ... Internet-on-a-Disk #64, August 2005 I've been publishing this free online newsletter since 1994, frequently posting my insights and opinions to share for free with all, rather like a blog, only as plain and simple Web pages. For all back issues, go to http://www.samizdat.com/ioad.html

94. A Memoir Of Jane Austen (Chapter Nine) I remember Miss Mitford s saying to me I would almost cut off one of my hands,if it would enable me to write like your aunt with the other. http://labrocca.com/ja/mja-ch09.html

A Memoir of Jane Austen by her nephew Previous Home TOC Next CHAPTER IX Opinions expressed by eminent Persons Opinions of Others of less Eminence Opinion of American Readers Into this list of the admirers of my Aunt's works, I admit those only whose eminence will be universally acknowledged. No doubt the number might have been increased. Southey, in a letter to Sir Egerton Brydges, says: You mention Miss Austen. Her novels are more true to nature, and have, for my sympathies, passages of finer feeling than any others of this age. She was a person of whom I have heard so well and think so highly, that I regret not having had an opportunity of testifying to her the respect which I felt for her. It may be observed that Southey had probably heard from his own family connections of the charm of her private character. A friend of hers, the daughter of Mr Bigge Wither, of Manydown Park near Basingstoke, was married to Southey's uncle, the Rev. Herbert Hill, who had been useful to his nephew in many ways, and especially in supplying him with the means of attaining his extensive knowledge of Spanish and Portuguese literature. Mr Hill had been chaplain to the British Factory at Lisbon, where Southey visited him and had the use of a library in those languages which his uncle had collected. Southey himself continually mentions his uncle Hill in terms of respect and gratitude. S.T. Coleridge would sometimes burst out into high encomiums of Miss Austen's novels as being, 'in their way, perfectly genuine and individual productions'.

95. A Memoir Of Jane Austen (Chapter Seven) Miss Mitford, too, lived quietly in Our Village , devoting her time and Hundreds admired Miss Mitford on account of her writings for one who ever http://labrocca.com/ja/mja-ch07.html

A Memoir of Jane Austen by her nephew Previous Home TOC Next CHAPTER VII Seclusion from the Literary World Notice from the Prince Regent Correspondence with Mr Clarke Suggestions to alter her Style of Writing she had to walk shy and trembling through an avenue of lords and ladies, drawn up for the purpose of gazing at the author of Jane Eyre . Miss Mitford, too, lived quietly in 'Our Village', devoting her time and talents to the benefit of a father scarcely worthy of her; but she did not live there unknown. Her tragedies gave her a name in London. She numbered Milman and Talfourd amongst her correspondents; and her works were a passport to the society of many who would not otherwise have sought her. Hundreds admired Miss Mitford on account of her writings for one who ever connected the idea of Miss Austen with the press. A few years ago, a gentleman visiting Winchester Cathedral desired to be shown Miss Austen's grave. The verger, as he pointed it out, asked, 'Pray, sir, can you tell me whether there was anything particular about that lady; so many people want to know where she was buried?' During her life the ignorance of the verger was shared by most people; few knew that 'there was anything particular about that lady'. It was not till towards the close of her life, when the last of the works that she saw published was in the press, that she received the only mark of distinction ever bestowed upon her; and that was remarkable for the high quarter whence it emanated rather than for any actual increase of fame that it conferred. It happened thus. In the autumn of 1815 she nursed her brother Henry through a dangerous fever and slow convalescence at his house in Hans Place. He was attended by one of the Prince Regent's physicians. All attempts to keep her name secret had at this time ceased, and though it had never appeared on a title-page, all who cared to know might easily learn it: and the friendly physician was aware that his patient's nurse was the author of

96. Chapter 9: Contemporary Writers When staying in Northumberland Miss Mitford remarks, Morning calls are here made so Miss Mitford in regard to this book quotes the opinions of two men, http://home.earthlink.net/~lfdean/austen/mitton/chapter9.html

Chapter 9: Contemporary by G. E. Mitton After Garrick's death, when she came to stay with his brave but heart-broken widow she lived very quietly. "My way of life is very different from what it used to be. After breakfast I go to my own apartment for several hours, where I read, write and work; very seldom letting anybody in. At four we dine. We have the same elegant table as usual, but I generally confine myself to one single dish of meat. I have taken to drink half a glass of wine. At six we have coffee; at eight tea, when we have sometimes, a dowager or two of quality. At ten we have sallad and fruits." This was in 1779, and two years previously her play Percy It is customary to think of Hannah More as so quiet and Quakerish that the idea of her writing plays and living a gay society life is new to many people, but the seriousness and retirement came later. Considering how easily the heights of celebrity were stormed at that time, and especially by a woman, it is most remarkable that Jane received no encouragement, and had no literary society, and not one literary correspondent in the whole of her lifetime. Of course her first novel was not published until 1811, and then anonymously, with the simple inscription "By a Lady" on the title-page, yet it sold well and became very popular, and though no effort was made to proclaim her the authoress certainly there was no rigid attempt to hide her personality. Before the publication of Emma But the London of 1811, when we have the first record of Jane's visiting it, was not what it had been thirty years before. Johnson was dead, Walpole was dead, Garrick was dead, Reynolds was dead, Sheridan living but sunk in debt and disease; of the brilliant band that Hannah More had known few were left.

97. Chapter 2: Childhood Miss Mitford was also a pupil; she went in 1798 when the school had been removed to Miss Mitford says further that the school was excellent, that the http://home.earthlink.net/~lfdean/austen/mitton/chapter2.html

Chapter 2: Childhood by G. E. Mitton In the time of Jane's childhood the old days of rigid severity toward children were past, no longer were mere babies taken to see executions and whipped on their return to enforce the example they had beheld. In fact a period of undue indulgence had set in as a reaction, but this does not seem to have affected the Austen family, who were brought up very wisely, and perhaps even a little more repressively than would be the case in a similar household to-day. Jane herself was evidently a diffident child. She says of a little visitor many years afterwards: "Our little visitor has just left us, and left us highly pleased with her; she is a nice natural open-hearted, affectionate girl, with all the ready civility one sees in the best children in the present day; so unlike anything that I was myself at her age, that I am often all astonishment and shame. "What is become of all the shyness in the world?" Moral as well as natural diseases disappear in the progress of time and new ones take their place. Shyness and the sweating sickness have given way to confidence and paralytic complaints." Her own attitude toward children is peculiar. Though on indisputable testimony she was the most popular and best loved of aunts, the fact remains that she had no great insight into child nature, nor does she seem to have had any general love of children beyond those who were specially connected with her by close ties. She loved her nieces, but much more as they grew older than as children.

98. Jane Austen -- Letters -- Brabourne Edition -- Appendix I: Correspondence With M Miss Mitford, too, lived quietly in `Our Village, devoting her time and Hundreds admired Miss Mitford on account of her writings for one who ever http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/brablt19.html

Letters of Jane Austen Brabourne Edition Appendix I Memoir Return to Jane Austen's life Return to Jane Austen's writings Letters of Jane Austen, Brabourne edition Dedication ... and the society of Jane Austen's day Letters of Jane Austen to her sister Cassandra Austen Letters to Fanny Knight 1814-1816 Letters to Anna Austen Lefroy, 1814-1816 Letters from Cassandra Austen to Fanny Knight, 1817 Poetry, Backwards letter APPENDICES Memoir . [THIS FILE] [i.] Nov. 15, 1815 [ii.] Carlton House: (Nov. 16, 1815) [iii.] Dec. 11 [iv.] Chawton, near Alton, April 1, 1816. ... Memoir APPENDICES Memoir THE notice taken by the Prince Regent his book she had to walk shy and trembling through an avenue of lords and ladies, drawn up for the purpose of gazing at the author of ` Jane Eyre .' Miss Mitford, too, lived quietly in `Our Village,' devoting her time and talents to the benefit of a father scarcely worthy of her; but she did not live there unknown. Her tragedies gave her a name in London. She numbered Milman and Talfourd amongst her correspondents; and her works were a passport to the society of many who would not otherwise have sought her. Hundreds admired Miss Mitford on account of her writings for one who ever connected the idea of Miss Austen with the press. A few years ago, a gentleman visiting Winchester Cathedral desired to be shown Miss Austen's grave. The verger, as he pointed it out, asked, `Pray, sir, can you tell me whether there was anything particular about that lady, so many people want to know where she was buried?' During her life the ignorance of the verger was shared by most people; few knew that `there was anything particular about that lady.'

99. ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING - LoveToKnow Article On ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING ~The sonnets were sent to Miss Mitford and published at Reading, as Sonnets byEBB, in 1847. In 1850 they were included, under their final title, http://22.1911encyclopedia.org/B/BR/BROWNING_ELIZABETH_BARRETT.htm

ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT There is here an interval of silence in the correspondence which busied her secluded life at all ages; but with an impulse of self-protection she went to work as soon as her strength sufficed. One of her tasks was a part taken in the Chaucer Modernized (1841), a work suggested by Wordsworth, to which he, Leigh Hunt, Horne and others contributed. In 1841 she returned to Wimpole Street, and in that and the following year she was at work on two series of articles on the Greek Christian poets and on the English poets, written for the Athenaeum under the editorship of Mr C. W. Dilke. In. work she found some interest and even some delight: Once I wished not to live, but the faculty of life seems to have sprung up in me again from under the crushing foot of heavy grief. Be it all as God wills. A new edition of Mrs Brownings poems was called for in 1853, and at about this time, in Florence, she began to work on Aurora Leigh. She was still writing this poem when the Brownings were again in England, in 5855. Tennyson there read to them his newly-written Maud. After another interval in Paris they were in London againMrs Browning for the last time. She was with her dear cousin Kenyon during the last months of his life. In October 1856 the Brownings returned to their Florentine home, Mrs Browning leaving her completed Aurora Leigh for publication. The book had an immediate success; a second edition was required in a fortnight, a third a few months later. In the fourth edition (1859) several corrections were made. The review in Blackwood was written by W. E. Aytoun, that in the North British by Coventry Patmore.

100. Elizabeth Barrett Browning Miss Mitford has described her as a slight, delicate figure, with a shower ofdark curls falling on each side of a most expressive face, large tender eyes, http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/ebb/cornhill.html

Elizabeth Barrett Browning G. B. S. [George Barnett Smith] This discussion of the life and works of the poet comes from "Elizabeth Barrett Browning," an article which appeared in the 1874 Cornhill Magazine , pp. 471-90; the essay's first four pages, which discuss the nature of poetry, can also be found elswehere in the Victorian Web PVA , who suggested including this work in VW , scanned the text, and GPL proofed the text, added subheadings, converted it to HTML, and linked it to other parts of VW . Vanessa Eisenman e-mailed GPL on 17 July 2005 to point out that GBS must be, not George Bernard Shaw, to whom the essay had been tentatively attributed, but the George Barnett Smith that Jennifer Kigma Wall mentions in her essay in VW [Introduction] as it touched other dead things; we want the sense of the saturation of Christ's blood upon the souls of our poets, that it may cry through them in answer to the ceaseless wail of the Sphinx of our humanity, expounding agony into renovation. Something of this has been perceived in art when its glory was at the fullest. Something of a yearning after this may be seen among the Greek Christian poets, something which would have been much with a stronger faculty. This idea recurs again and again in different forms through her works. She yearns for poetry to be sanctified, to be made holy. This is how it was with the grand old Greeks, and how it should be now. It is because poetry is losing its sense of its intimate relations to God that it is in danger of dying out. And how is the sacredness of poetry to. be truly apprehended? By the method which Mrs. Browning adopted, of looking boldly into the human heart, and reading it fearlessly and trustfully. "Foole, saide my muse to mee, looke in thine hearte, and write." And poetry thus produced is that which preserves an everlasting freshness and fragrance. The human heart first, and Nature afterwards, were the teachers at whose feet our poet learned the deep lessons she subsequently transmitted to her species. By these were fostered in her a tenderness which breathes through all her writings, and whose spirit is mirrored therein as the blue sky mirrors itself upon the bosom of the deep.

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