VISITS AND SKETCHES
AT HOME AND ABROAD.
VOL. III.
BY MRS. JAMESON,
AUTHOR OF THE "CHARACTERISTICS OF WOMEN," "LIVES OF CELEBRATED FEMALESOVEREIGNS," &c.
IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOL. III.
SECOND EDITION.
LONDON
SAUNDERS AND OTLEY, CONDUIT STREET.
1835.
LONDON:
IBOTSON AND PALMER, PRINTERS, SAVOY STREET, STRAND.
| PAGE | |
| Sketch of Mrs. Siddons | 3 |
| Sketch of Fanny Kemble | 49 |
| The False One | 93 |
| Halloran the Pedlar | 177 |
| The Indian Mother | 231 |
| Much Coin, Much Care | 263 |
VOL. III.
Page 42, line 5, for the full stop read a comma, and for she had read having.
Page 59,—4, for cannot read could not.
MRS. SIDDONS.
[The following little sketch was written a few days after the death ofMrs. Siddons, and was called forth by certain paragraphs which appearedin the daily papers. A misapprehension of the real character of thisremarkable woman, which I know to exist in the minds of many who admiredand venerated her talents, has induced me to enlarge the first veryslight sketch, into a more finished but still inadequate portrait.I have spared no pains to verify the truth of my own conception bytestimony of every kind that was attainable. I have penned every word asif I had been in that great fin