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Mary Russell Mitford and her surroundings

Chapter 3: ILLUSTRATIONS
By Constance Hill
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The book traces Mary Russell Mitford’s life and surroundings in chronological fashion, progressing from her birthplace and childhood through schooling, notable social encounters, and the rural communities that shaped her sketches. It surveys her dramatic and poetic efforts, extensive correspondence, domestic relocations from larger houses to cottage life, local walks and travels, and the friendships and visitors that animated her days, closing with quieter later years. Chapter-length vignettes are accompanied by portraits and site illustrations, and the narrative emphasizes her observational acuity, rural sensibility, and the intimate link between place and literary creation.

ILLUSTRATIONS

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Portrait of Mary Russell Mitford. (By A. Burt, taken in 1836) Frontispiece
Grove Cottage, Frognal, Hampstead Preface   x
The Mitfords’ house in Broad Street, Alresford 3
Antique girandole 8
Mary Russell Mitford’s birthplace 11
Mary Russell Mitford at the age of four years. (After a miniature) To face  16
The Cross-house 21
Southampton Street, Reading 24
The “Walk” by the sea, Lyme Regis 31
The Great House, Lyme Regis 35
Old ironwork 39
The panelled chamber 41
The drawing-room 47
Blackfriars Bridge in 1796 52
Dr. Mitford’s house in the London Road, Reading To face  58
Antique ironwork 65
Hans Place in 1798 69
Ceiling decoration (1714) 81
A purse-bag 91
A skit on the “Pink of the mode” To face  92
A quaint tea-set 100
Gosfield Hall To face  110
Le Comte d’Artois (afterwards Charles X ) To face  112
The Dining-room in the Deanery, Bocking 115
Dr. Valpy’s school To face  122
Country cottages 143
Bertram House 147
Inlaid tea-caddy 160
The Mitfords’ cottage in Three Mile Cross 163
The village shop 169
The Swan Inn 173
A country wheelbarrow 178
Miss Mitford’s writing-parlour 181
The wheelwright’s workshop 185
Fragment of the Silchester Roman wall 189
Where the curate lodged 193
The curate’s parlour 197
An old Berkshire farm 213
Frith Street, Soho Square 225
Old houses in Great Queen Street 233
A French bonbonnière 249
The West Gate, Southampton 251
Pulteney Bridge, Bath 254
Arabella Fermor as a child. (After a picture in the possession of Frederick Cowslade, Esq.) 259
The Porch, Ufton Court 261
Arabella Fermor, the “Belinda” of the “Rape of the Lock,” afterwards Mrs. Perkins. (From a painting by W. Sykes in the possession of Lord Treowen) To face  262
Francis Perkins. (By W. Sykes, from a painting also in the possession of Lord Treowen) To face  262
Belinda’s parlour 265
The garden steps 267
A dandy of the period 291
An old shoeing forge 297
A bridge on the Loddon 303
In Aberleigh (Arborfield) Park 307
Dr. Mitford. (From a painting by John Lucas in the possession of W. May, Esq.) To face  330
Ironwork in the balcony of Sergeant Talfourd’s house 338
Verses by M. R. Mitford written in a friend’s album (facsimile) To face  344
Old house near Swallowfield 355
A teapot which belonged to M. R. Mitford 359
M. R. Mitford’s last home at Swallowfield 363
Swallowfield Church 380