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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1, chapter 29 (search)
e Disowned were placed behind the other books on the shelves of the library, as unfit for the eyes of ladies; when George Sand and Paul de Kock were named with bated breath, and the young people knew them not; when Miss Austen's correct ladies and gentlemen walked serenely across the literary stage and looked their approval of their equally prudent audience; when Lady Delacour's duel with Harriet Freke was considered an incident to be deprecated while reading Miss Edgeworth's novels, and Lady Audley's secret was held in reserve and not to be confided lightly to the young; when we still argued hotly over the relative merits of Di. Vernon and Belinda; when some old-fashioned girls wept over Thaddeus of Warsaw, and there were even some who yet gazed lovingly at Amanda Fitz-Allen's tearful fainting form as it was borne off from Lord Mortimer--Frederika Bremer's Neighbors gave us our first glimpse of Swedish everyday life. Petraa's nose was a matter of widespread sympathy, and we laughed
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Smithson, James Lewis Macie -1835 (search)
Smithson, James Lewis Macie -1835 Philanthropist; place and date of birth not positively known, some authorities giving England about 1754, and others France in 1765. At the commencement of his will, he wrote: I, James Smithson, son of Hugh, third Duke of Northumberland, and Elizabeth, heiress of the Hungerfords of Audley, and niece to Charles, the proud Duke of Somerset, without giving the date of his nativity. He took his degree at Oxford University (1786) under the surname of Macie, but between 1791 and 1803 he adopted the family name of Smithson. He was distinguished at the university as a chemist; became the associate of the leading scientists of the day; and was elected fellow of the Royal Society in 1787, to the Transactions of which he contributed eight papers. At his death, in Genoa, Italy, June 27, 1829, he left about 200 manuscripts, which seemed to be chiefly portions of a philosophical dictionary. In his will, dated Oct. 23, 1826, he bequeathed to his nephew the
John D. Billings, The history of the Tenth Massachusetts battery of light artillery in the war of the rebellion, Appendix. (search)
ound a piece of laurel wood, and made a spoon which I still keep as a memento of that dismal time. I also marked my tin can with my name, and around the rim I cut Lovelace's lines, Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage, and thought as I did so that the poet did not know about these things. In some way or other, three books had escaped the clutches of the two sets of thieves who had robbed us. These were a Bible, which I read completely through; a copy of Miss Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret, which I also read, but without much enjoyment; and The Arabian Nights, a book whose absurdity and childishness were too much for me, even in prison. We used oftentimes to sit and gaze at a field of corn which grew on the south bank of the river, hardly a stone's throw away, and say to each other, Oh, if I were only in that cornfield! Other objects which whiled away the weary prison day were the occasional passage of a tug up or down the canal, or a group of turkey-buzzards hov
The Daily Dispatch: January 24, 1863., [Electronic resource], Fresh books. (search)
to the English language. Numerous editions have been issued in London and New York. It might be a table enterprise if one of our ston or Richmond publishers would print it. Thackeray's "Philip" has been lately issued in complete form. The critic think it hardly equal to its predecessors, but it exhibits the same wonderful photography of character and manners so characteristic of the style of the greatest of English novelists. "East Lynne," by Mrs. Wood, has been exceedingly popular.--"Lady Audley's Secret," by Miss Bradden, is described as a "sensation novel," and has had an immense sale. Among the favorite novelists of the time, Bulwer has published his "Strange Story;" Wilkie Collins (author of the "Woman in White") his "After Dark;" G. A. Sala, "The Seven Sons of Mammon;" the authoress of "John Halifax," a domestic story called "Mistress and Maid; " and the authoress of "Adam Bede," another contribution to the intese school of romance, entitled "Siles Marner, the Weaver of Rav
The Daily Dispatch: June 29, 1863., [Electronic resource], The organization of the militia (search)
Literary profits. --Mr. Kinglake's profits on the first portion of his history of the Crimean war are estimated at $50,000. Miss M.A. Braddos, the author of "Lady Audley's Secret," and "Aurora Floyd," is said to have made more than $40,000 within the last six months.
The Daily Dispatch: July 24, 1863., [Electronic resource], Darrell Mareham (search)
Darrell Mareham --By M. E. Braddon--Ayres & Wade, Richmond.--We have received this work, which is written by the author of Aurora Floyd, and Lady Audley's Secret two works which have created a in literary circles in England, and have proved so popular that they have been dramatized by some dozen persons, and have had extraordinary fun on the boards of theatres there and in the United States. The present work is said to be equal to the two named. The publication of the book is executed with much neatness.
The Daily Dispatch: September 4, 1863., [Electronic resource], Miss Braddon, the novelist. (search)
Miss Braddon, the novelist. --Miss Braddon, the popular author of "Lady Audley's Secret," "Aurora Floyd," and other sensation stories, was an actress at the Hull (England) Theatre, a few years ago, and played under the name of Miss Seyton: "Being clever with her pen, she was employed by the management in a literary capacity. She wrote introductions to the pantomimes, and several odes, delivered on certain public occasions. This brought her into notice, and, while she was making a visit at Beverly Park, she published some poems, which induced a Mr. Empson, a publisher at Beverly, to enter into an agreement with her to write a novel. The name of this first effort of her pen, as a novelist, had the startling title of 'Three Times Dead, or the Secret of the Heath.' But the venture, it seems, was not a good one, for we now find Mr. Empson applying to the Hull Bankruptcy Court to be discharged, as a bankrupt, his debts amounting to nearly £300. In the course of his examinatio
The Daily Dispatch: September 14, 1863., [Electronic resource], Theatrical. (search)
he steamer City of New York carried out to New York, amongst her passengers, Miss Bella Vaughan, an article who has gained much celebrity by her performances at the principal provincial theatres, and especially by her recent personification of Lady Audley, in the play of "Lady Audley's Secret," Mr. Gomersall and Mr. and Mrs. De Vere, of the Liverpool Royal and Amphitheaters. Those ladies, and gentlemen have been engaged by the lessee of the Richmond Theatre, Virginia; but how they are to reachBella Vaughan, an article who has gained much celebrity by her performances at the principal provincial theatres, and especially by her recent personification of Lady Audley, in the play of "Lady Audley's Secret," Mr. Gomersall and Mr. and Mrs. De Vere, of the Liverpool Royal and Amphitheaters. Those ladies, and gentlemen have been engaged by the lessee of the Richmond Theatre, Virginia; but how they are to reach the Capital of the Confederacy, after their arrival in New York, is a mystery.