Her face was long; the eyes not large nor beautiful in colour--they were, I think, of a greyish blue--the hair, which she wore in old-fashioned braids coming low down on either side of her face, of a rather light brown.

It was streaked with grey when last I saw her.

Her figure was of middle height, large-boned and powerful.
Lewes often said that she inherited from her peasant ancestors a frame and constitution originally very robust.

Her head was finely formed, with a noble and well-balanced arch from brow to crown.

The lips and mouth possessed a power of infinitely varied expression.