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PREFACE.


Whether, with a sounder constitution, a better education, more extensive reading and a wider knowledge of the world, she would have produced works of a more voluminous character worthy of being preserved, may be open to doubt.

Her efforts hitherto have been confined to scenes of a domestic kind, and within her own experience. These she has described with an intensity and refinement of