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tirst volume appeared
dedicated, by permission, to tl

Mont Blanc, and

which were most favourably received. The latter attracted
the attention of Coleridge, a great authority, and led to

the expression on his part of awish tc
tanee of the ypung poetess,_ _

)rm the acquain-

"Until her -sixt
from her home at Th

iih year, Miss Browne had not been absent
rims for any length of time; but the
'rear 1828 were passed at Swansea,
cue soft beauties of Berk-
resque scenery of South Wales,
.ced her mind. Now, for the first
stance with the ocean, and the lone stern-
- and new ideas must

summer and autumn
in Wales. The contrast betwc
shire, and the wild but pic
must have powerfully ail
time, she made acq
mess of stunendou

Wave been gathered in from the contemplation of these. the
mightiest works in nature. On leaving Wales, she returned,
to the early home of her childhood, but to a new residence
)rth, distant about twelve miles from London. Wor.

ton Lodge, where, during her a
to. was a large mansion,
of Lord James I 3 ay. Ji
the chance was not TM
To her early home and i
turned with untirii

short time previous!)- in occupation
ing from letters writtPn at the time,
without much sacrifice of feeling.
beautiful vicinage, her thoughts re-
-1 like all other memories of

,
~
leprivation, when hallowed and softened by time, they afforded
'ight in their contemplation."

COUM d

after this period be-

became intimate with many lite-
rary characters, including Jerdan, Martin the painter,
Alan Cunningham, and Professor Ronnie; and attended
a number of convemziones, at all of which she attracted

came more frequent

both attention and admiration. Her appearance at this
time is described as highly prepossessing.
"A brunette, with large, dark eyes, softened by a shade of
ly—the richest profusion of raven ringlets—features,
f not decidedly handsome—and a graceful figure ; to
winning7tions were added a address—a guileless

melancholy
pleasing
these

nd never of-
not the effect of
otice she received
nferior organization ;

open-hearted disposition that thought no
fended by an unkind word, and a frankness
familiarity, but the cause of it.'* Th
would have been dangerous to a mi.d

xl sense drew t

.„
separation between
ion that but sickens,

who knew her best, km

Shortly after this Miss Browne's third volume, Repent-
ance, and Other Poems, appeared. The pieces were
chiefly religious. She had left the gaiety of London, and

returned

he quie

with Miss Landon (L. E. L.), first commenced in the
metropolis, was renewed at Worton Lodge, in Berkshire,
and cemented into a firm friendship. The beautiful strains

Mr Brown's family removed to the north of England
in the summer of 1831, Their first residence was at Bootle;

, .
but the locality being found inconvenient, a house was
taken in Soho-street. They subsequently lived in Mount-
pleasant. Here the gifted poetess felt her isolation from
literary circles. Her chief friends were the Chorleys and

her mind the best. Occasionallitoo, she met Miss Jews:
bury, the Howitts, Mrs. S. C. Hall, and other talented
writers. By some of these, her attention was directed to
the study of the German language, in which she made
great proficiency, as her spirited version of Theodore
Kamer's famous sword song proves, and she is said to
have regretted that she had not sooner acquired the lan-

guag•
" Liverpool was destined to lead her mind to a changer the
matest she had yet experienced, because it related to higher
things than of this world—the most extensive, because it
brought a happiness, not based on excitement, and which re-
hpr to hpr latter end. Her m •