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Identifier: painterofdreamso00stirrich (find matches)
Title: A painter of dreams, and other biographical studies
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Stirling, Anna Maria Diana Wilhelmina Pickering
Subjects: Great Britain -- Biography England -- Social life and customs
Publisher: London, John Lane New York, John Lane company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Yet when she

made her début at the age of eighteen, a simple
girl who had never yet left her home, no one
predicted for her a fate more remarkable than
that which immediately befell her, when she was
accepted as the reigning belle of Baltimore. " She
possessed," we are told, " a pure Grecian contour,
her head was exquisitely formed, her forehead fair
and shapely, her eyes large and dark, with an
expression of tenderness which did not belong to
her character, and the delicate loveliness of her
mouth and chin, the soft bloom of her complexion,
together with her beautifully rounded shoulders and
tapering arms combined to form the loveliest of
women."
But tragedy followed hard upon the footsteps of
the beautiful girl. The very year of her déhut there
came to America Jerome Bonaparte, a minor, the
youngest brother of the First Consul of France.
Honours of every kind were lavished upon so
important a visitor ; he was made the lion of society,
and about the date of the Fall races he was intro-
duced to Miss Patterson, the belle of Baltimore, the
rich merchant's lovely daughter.
Elizabeth Patterson had been absent from home
Text Appearing After Image:

ELIZABETH PATTERON
(MADAME JEROME BONAPARTE)
From the picture by Gilbert Stuart, in the possession of Countess Moltke-Huitfeldt
(née Bonaparte)

ROMANTIC LEGENDS 169

when the French officers first arrived in Baltimore,
but she returned in time to go to the races, at which,
one account states, she was introduced to her future
husband. Legend indeed clings lovingly about the
first meeting between Jerome and his wife that was
to be. One story runs that Elizabeth became
entangled in a gold chain which formed part of the

magnificent attire of Lieutenant Bonaparte ; and
while he endeavoured to release her, she recalled,
with a sense of inevitability, a strange prophecy
made to her as a child that one day she would be a
great lady in France. Another relates that Jerome
had been forewarned that " to see Elizabeth was to
marry her," and vowing that nothing would ever
induce him to marry an American, he had facetiously
nicknamed her " ma belle femme " before he saw
her. But the following account given by Madame
Bonaparte herself in 18 15 is alone reliable amid the
many picturesque fables to which the event gave
rise.


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