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Title: Mary Russell Mitford and her surroundings

Author: Constance Hill

Illustrator: Ellen G. Hill

Release date: July 13, 2025 [eBook #76491]

Language: English

Original publication: London: John Lane, the Bodley Head, 1920

Credits: Fiona Holmes and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

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Transcriber’s Note

Footnotes have all been renumbered from 1 to 20.

Page 76—bougeoises changed to bourgeoises.

Page 332—biassed changed to biased.

The Advertisements “By Same Author”, have been placed at the back of the project.

MARY RUSSELL MITFORD

Portrait of Mary Mitford

From a portrait by A. Burt
Taken in 1836.