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Mrs Gore [ Catherine Grace Frances Gore (nee Moody, 1798–1861), 'silver fork' novelist and dramatist ]:Biblio.com

Mrs Gore; 'silver fork' novels One leaf of the holograph manuscript of "Sketches of English Character" with authorial corrections and additions.

ref. 23138Book first published 1846 in two volumes. Substantial part of pp. 226-7 in the section "The Optimist and the Pessimist" vol.II 1846. Two pages 4to 19 x 20cm crumpled trimmed untidily with several tears many repaired as best they could. Text as follows changes and additions noted in square brackets: First page p.225 in book "important alliances her most valuable colonies her financial reputation; that word eradicated Britannia was now a lady of anything but unsullied reputation ; word eradicated that America had ceased to visit her and Europe was cutting her acquaintance: and tried to preserve a becoming elongation of countenance when every minute like the toll of a funeral bell Sir Josiah emitted some dolorous announcement. When lo ! just as I was beginning to feel as though a parish pall hung heavy upon my shoulders in bounced my friend Ramble his mottled cheeks distended by a smile and his white teeth glistening like those of a hungry word later addition pointer. "Just arrived in England my dear boy" cried he: "only with cap. In MS above elided phrase three hours landed at the Tower stairs "- in Published Work continues Sir Josiah who seemed to resent his intrusion in such towering spirits as a personal offence looked as if he longed to inquire whether poor Joe had travelled phrase added above elision on the broad grin all the way from France. "Here's comfort !" resumed Ramble trimmed so that next line can't be read."MS has "Ramble" instead of "Sir Josiah". Overleaf pp.226-7 n book "I have always understood sir" replied Crabbe - to whom he seemed to be addressing himself for confirmation - " that there was nothing more unwholesome on earth than previous word elided fresh ink a sea-coal fire. To say nothing of the cursed sulphur which turns everything black in the room even one's temper to say nothing of the filthy gases emitted of which not being a chemist I am incompetent to speak and I wish I were also incompetent to smell there can be no doubt that innumerable lives are annually sacrificed in England to our mad habit of roasting ourselves half the morning before the bars of a grate as a preparative for confronting the severity of the most damnable climate on the face of the habitable globe substituted for phrase crossed out""Climate my dear Sir Cried Ramble -"Climate Don't talk to me about the merit of foreign climates sentence added in fresh ink later above following. I've just come from Nice where I was shrivelled up like a dead leaf phrase added with the bise. I spent the Spring in Constantinople where loss of part of first letter where it snowed half the time and rained the omitted in print t'other: ; and I am now enabled to assert from experience elision as added above I have often next line or more trimmed" Book first published, 1846 in two volumes. unknown

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