Worcester daily spy., 1859-12-22
Correspondence of the Newark Advertiser.
Literary People in Florence.

rLORENCE, NOV. IL, 1909.
The foreign literary circle, which for some
years has had charm of IFS own at Florence.
is unfortunately broken up-at least, the dear
little circle of old. Mrs Trollope, the elder,
the eldest of the set, is now out by age, being
nearly eighty, and very infirm. Her unresting
pen has at length run its course her hospita-
bic dinners, evening reunions, and Saturday
morning receptions in the antique library of
her commodious viAino are over, the doors re.
luctantly closed, and she herself is now mostly
confined to her chamber, her faculties and she
going the way of all the EARTH
Mrs. Trollope, the younger, the accomplish
ed iinguist, musician poet, and essay and let
ter writer, the piquant correspondent of the
London Atheneum, is deprived of social lter-
course; and what deprivation to her friends
as well on account of her own delicate health
as the declining state of her mother-in- law
Mr.. f. A. Tfollope, her husband, and author
of many popular works, inherits the indefatig-
able writing propensities of his family, too en-
tirely, TO give much of his time to social en-
Joyments. Mrs. Somerville (nearly as old as
Mrs. Trollope), though herself as fresh appar.
emily as in her primest days, is withheld from
society now by the infirmities of an aged hus-
band, though she still pursues her scientific re-
searches and writings, and receives her friends
cordially.
"The Brownings" are but seldom in Flor
ence now ; Mrs. BIS health obliging them to
pass their winters at Rome, for a milder eli
mate, and their summers in the rountry for
pure air, SO that the famous Casa Guida min
do,cs are closed save for few weeks in the
spring and fall while the increasing debility
of Mrs. Browning, prevents her joining the
literary gatherings of which she was once the
acknowledged queen. Mr.. Browning is too
devoted to her to indulge his own genial and
social tastes, at the expense of leaving her
alone.
Young Mr.. Bulwer Lytton--"Owen Mere
dith'-formerly attached to the English Le-
CATION here, though more fond of Intellectual
than OF fashionable society, has been removed
to another court. Mr.. Charles Lever is now
English Consul to Spezzia, and most of the
time at his post there thus depriving the cir
Gle Of the sunshine ard spice of his good hui
NOR and wit Mr.. Frederic Tennison-the
Laureates brother, the poet himself, the anna.
teur and patron of classical music-has left
Florence to reside in Pisa. Mr.. Norton son
OF the Hon. Mrs. Norton, and inheritor of her
poetic gift has gone to his mother country
probably to give his Cdpridn peasant wife an
opportunity to acquire English and gentle hab.
its, since the death of his older brother he
becomes direct heir to the peerage. and the
fisherman's daughter-whom he fell in love
with for her pretty bare feet-wil thus be soon
my Lady," and called into the arisiocratc
circles of Old England, by the side of a
mother-in-law famed no less for her beauty
and elegance, than for her poetry and other
rare gifts.
Mrs. Ii. b. Stowe is also in Florence with
her twin daughters and several proteges, all Of
whom are besicged with masters in every Do.
partment Of art, in order to make the most OF
their SoJourn in the city of Dante.