Female Life in Prison, Volum 2

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Hurst and Blackett, 1862
 

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Side 299 - A full detailed biography of Irving we have not seen till now. In Mrs. Oliphant's volumes we trace the history, and mark the aspect, the joy, and grief, and conflict of his life, as we have never before been able to do. Mrs. Oliphant's work is admirable, presenting a most living, consistent, vivid picture of Irving.
Side 100 - I have a remembrance of looking through the "inspection" of a cell some years ago, and perceiving a prisoner, with her elbows on the table, staring at a common daisy, which she had plucked from the central patch of grass during her rounds — one of those rude, repulsive, yet not wholly bad prisoners, from whom no display of sentiment was anticipated. Yet the wistful look of that woman at her stolen prize was a gleam of as true sentiment as ever breathed in a poet's lines. A painter might have made...

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