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      Lady John Russell: A Memoir with Selections from Her Diaries and Correspondence

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4064066213176

       LADY JOHN RUSSELL

       CHAPTER I

       1815-34

       CHAPTER II

       1835-41

       CHAPTER III

       1841

       A BORDER BALLAD

       REMONSTRANCE

       CHAPTER IV

       1841-45

       CHAPTER V

       1846

       CHAPTER VI

       1847-52

       PEMBROKE LODGE

       APPENDIX TO CHAPTER VI

       CHAPTER VII

       1852-55

       CHAPTER VIII

       1855

       CHAPTER IX

       1855-60

       CHAPTER X

       1859-66

       CHAPTER XI

       1866-70

       CHAPTER XII

       1870-78

       CHAPTER XIII

       1878-98

       CHAPTER XIV

       RECOLLECTIONS OF FRANCES, COUNTESS RUSSELL

       BY JUSTIN McCARTHY

       APPENDIX

       MEMORIAL ADDRESS

       BY FREDERIC HARRISON

       ILLUSTRATIONS

       INDEX

       A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W Y Z

       Table of Contents

      Page 1.

       Table of Contents

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      On November 15, 1815, at Minto in Roxburghshire, the home of the Elliots, a second daughter was born to the Earl and Countess of Minto.

      Frances Anna Maria Elliot, who afterwards became the first Countess Russell, was destined to a long, eventful life. As a girl she lived among those directing the changes of those times; as the wife of a Prime Minister of England unusually reticent in superficial relations but open in intimacy, in whom the qualities of administrator and politician overlay the detachment of sensitive reflection, she came to judge men and events by principles drawn from deep feelings and wide surveys; and in the long years of her widowhood, possessing still great natural vitality and vivacity of feeling, she continued open to the influences of an altered time, delighting and astonishing many who might have expected to find between her and them the ghostly barrier of a generation.

      She died in January, 1898. The span of her life covers, then, many important political events, and we shall catch glimpses of these as they affect her. Though the intention of the following pages is biographical, the story of Lady Russell's life, after marriage, coincides so closely with her husband's public career that the thread connecting her letters together must be the political events in which he took part. Some of her letters, by throwing light on the sentiments and considerations which weighed with him at doubtful junctures, are not without value to the historian. It is not, however, the historian who has been chiefly


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