Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-06-22
How English AuIhoresses Look
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MD Conway, in his London correspon-
ence with the Round Table, gives us these
pleasant portraits Of a few familiar author
EGeorgeBliOt',risa a. finely shaped woman,
aHtl1uiGe large though not in the sense In
which Hawthorne describes English fe-
male, IaRgeness.z = She. isiiby no means cor.
pulent, nor are tlIere any suggestions of
steaks and sirl9ins abouther; but she is OF
largeskeleton.l She is not meagre either,
uthas the,look, of being made ent OF fine
clay. Shets blond, with very light auburn
hair, clear, seFeHeg smiling eyes, Beautiful
teeth. She haO alsosI gracious and easy
manners, with an indetinable air of un-
wofihiiness4of having been made for large
aud fine societies, but never entered them.
In word, she is a woman who, though not
handsQpe,I would pTsOnally satisfy her
most afdent adnifers!Z In remark able con
trast every. way to George Eliot is Miss
BfRlidoii,s t6e great2 Sensational move list
Onea would, TseeiAg .ShepyS SAatIuaIlyS GOubti
whether she could write her name. Mixed
OF rover clay, Che exact embodiment OF The
southern phpaseSs seommony," with "a color,
which looks like, rouge but is not she us
any time of the day. Miss, Francis Power
>CobBeV MS huge. sTRe fist impression She
makes is that Of 2, greatness otnerry. flesh
and blood, weighing nearly $50 pounds.
She too ,offeqr, has to walk about on
crutches, which y gives lone' "a Esad feel
ing that, this enormous size is 1far
from being the result Of, or ac-
couipanied by sl1saltR.s Bat When one
conYerses witty Miss Cobbe, he finds.
that the chief chaTacterfstic of her face
aud aGxpfessioff SIS delicacya There is a
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perteptiveness' BLENDED with sweetness
abmthet eye a sensftIA Aeheks and sensibility
in her .maRner,, ,up deT. whichras. eopyeEss7
ton and acduaihtahce 90 A6h-the corpu
lenUA seems 6oshrink, and tho most eharm4
ing .phYsiogpomY TO tbe uHsheathed,, Miss
CoSbe has an extfa ordinary power OF con-
veIsatiOn4 issOnaoof the 0ittiest of lmortaIs,
and. .Wberever she appears, has about, her q
group Of fascinated Young peopie-paftic-
ulaEIy of shefown iseSt=4by whose bursts of
merriment one, may know, on entering a
comtjatiy where the auithOress OF "Intdi-
tive AlOfalsi Is seatedJ Very likely there
will be not far off Miss. lisa Craig, editor, of
fSlJByg, leading Secretary or the Social
ScienoeS SJeiety4 who has a literary position
in England quite beyond what one might
imagine, and which IS more the result of
heraiersOnal attractiVehesst than apyof her
published works, She is not pretty is
sonfething ora German, has a hes TetroaSSeS,
is not bIoomipg; but sheis young, has
pure, childlike expression, an, eye, full Of
delea6s and refined feeling and a gentle
voiee,thateyerygopelikes to hear, She is
one Of the few persons Of culture, and of q
talehe EefgiIg on gehihs,y Whom phave seen
devotigg theRlselFe more tethe work that
will do good than TO that Which will bring,
the public gaze apdif thehi.A Size is aanear
friend Of, George, EliotDGs HI 4ewes, Hers
bert Spencer and OTHERS s'of that ilk," who
admire her warmly, She viii spop be mar7r