...no doubt considerable influence in rousing her daughter's mind. She was assiduous, too, in conveying the accomplishments which she herself retained ; and...very early age, the charge of her father's household devolved upon her ; and the details of housekeeping in Orkney are of so exhausting a kind, that, from...

...no doubt considerable influence in rousing her daughter's mind. She was assidous too, in conveying the accomplishments which she herself retained ; and...very early age, the charge of her father's household devolved upon her ; and the details of housekeeping in Orkney are of so exhausting a kind, that, from...

...short residence at school in Edinburgh, and, still more, by the affectionate care of her father'« sisters ; of whose kindness she entertained, through...of her own, which the day-dreams of youth called up hi her solitude. " At a very early age, the charge of her father's household devolved upon her ; and...

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...no doubt considerable influence in rousing her daughter's mind. She was assidous too, in conveying the accomplishments which she herself retained ; and...itself on poetry and fiction. They helped to people for ner that world of her owpf which the day-dreams of youth called up in her solitude. " At a very early...