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An English miscellaneous writer, wife of Rev. William; born in 1812; died in 1872. For many years she was principal of a girls' school in Hertfordshire. Of her numerous works of a moral and instructive character, the best known are: "The Poetry of Life" (1838); "Summer and Winter in the Pyrenees" (1841); "The Wives of England" (1843); "The Island Queen" (1846), a poem; "Fireside Tales" (1848); and the stories "The Brewer's Family" (1863); "William and Mary" (1865); "Northern Roses", descriptive of Yorkshire life.