Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Quote

The numerous family of father, mother, sister, brother, and his six children, that I have to provide for, compels me to write, when my health would demand a total repose from literary exertion.


The Literary Life and Correspondence of the Countess of Blessington (1855)


The numerous family of father, mother, sister, brother, and his six children, that I have to provide for, compels me to write, when my health would...

The numerous family of father, mother, sister, brother, and his six children, that I have to provide for, compels me to write, when my health would...

The numerous family of father, mother, sister, brother, and his six children, that I have to provide for, compels me to write, when my health would...

The numerous family of father, mother, sister, brother, and his six children, that I have to provide for, compels me to write, when my health would...