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The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
Amelia Opie

Born: November 12, 1769
Died: December 2, 1853 (aged 84)
Bio: Amelia Opie, née Alderson, was an English author who published numerous novels in the Romantic Period of the early 19th century, through 1828. Opie was also a leading abolitionist in Norwich, England.
Known for:
- Adeline Mowbray
- The father and daughter (1801)
- The Warrior's Return And Other Poems (1808)
- Detraction displayed (1828)
- Simple tales (1806)