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What I Remember, Volume 2

CHAPTER XVIII
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She produced also a number of pen-and-ink drawings illustrating these _stornelli_, which I still possess, and in which the spirited, graphic, and accurately truthful characterisation of the figures could only have been achieved by an artist very intimately acquainted _intus et in cute_ with the subjects of her pencil.
She published a volume on the Tuscan revolution, which was very favourably received.

The _Examiner_, among other critics--all of them, to the best of my remembrance, more or less favourable--said of these _Letters_ (for that was the form in which the work was published, all of them, I think, having been previously printed in the _Athenaeum_), "Better political information than this book gives may be had in plenty; but it has a special value which we might almost represent by comparing it to the report of a very watchful nurse, who, without the physician's scientific knowledge, uses her own womanly instinct in observing every change of countenance and every movement indicating the return of health and strength to the patient ...

She has written a very vivid and truthful account." The critic has very accurately, and, it may be said, graphically, assigned its true value and character to the book.
I have found it necessary in a former chapter, where I have given a number of interesting and characteristic letters from Landor to my wife's father, to insert a deprecatory _caveat_ against the exuberant enthusiasm of admiration which led him to talk of the probability of her eclipsing the names and fame of other poets, including in this estimate Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

The preposterousness of this no human being would have felt more strongly than Theodosia Garrow, except Theodosia Trollope, when such an estimate had become yet more preposterous.

But Landor, whose unstinted admiration of Mrs.
Browning's poetry is vigorously enough expressed in his own strong language, as may be seen in Mr.Forster's pages, would not have dreamed of instituting any such comparison at a later day.


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