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Title: The Maclise portrait-gallery of "illustrious literary characters", with memoirs biographical, critical, bibliographical & anecdotal, illustrative of the literature of the former half of the present century
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Maclise, Daniel, 1806-1870 Bates, William, d. 1884
Subjects: Authors Authors, English Journalists
Publisher: London : Chatto and Windus
Contributing Library: The Centre for 19th Century French Studies - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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tained in nearly twenty pamphlets before me,illustrate this controversy, which must be considered a very interestingand importnnt one in the annals of poetical criticism. Appendix F. LXXI.—MRS. S. C. HALL. That she was luttttc atsouc Ijcr st^e was recorded upon stone of aGood Mistris Hall of a former day,*~and well might it be so. for shewas the daughter of Shakespeare ! No such rich heritage oi geniusca7i belong to the graceful and accomplished writer to whom we devoiethese few notes, though the same sentiment would not be thought in-appropriate to her, by any who knew her, personally or through herwritings. Mrs. S. C. Hall, whose maiden name vvas Anna Maria Fielding, wasborn in Dublin, about 1802, of Huguenot descent; but was removed ininfancy to Bannow, in the county of Wexford, where she was broughtup in the home of her grandfather. At the age of sixteen she came to * Wittie aboue her sexe, but thats not all,Wise to Salvation vvas good Mistris Hall. Epitaph iti Stratford Church.
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AmTHOR OFTHE BUf CAKEERJ MRS. S. C. HALL. 367 reside in London ; and there becoming acquainted with Mr. Samuel CarterHall, a member of a Devonshire family, and a barrister-at-law,—but notfollowing his profession,—she was married to him on September 20th, 1824. The path of Mrs. Hall has lain in the quiet ways of life. The career,indeed, of a married lady,—the ruler of her household ; the adviser andassistant of her husband in his literary undertakings ; the writer, gainingfame by independent genius ; the friend, of ever-ready love and sympathy;the earnest and zealous promoter of charitable schemes,—and all thismay be said of Mrs. Hall,—presents, fortunately for herself, few pointsof salient interest to a biographer. There remains, then, to be noticedlittle besides the main incidents of her literary career ; on which I amnot inclined to be diftuse, as these will be found fairly recorded in Men(and WoTne?i) of the Time., and such like publications. Her first work, I think, w^as

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