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Our English people are much addicted to raising idols, and then revenging themselves on their own idolatry by knocking down and demolishing the poor bits of wood and stone that they had worshipped as gods. How many literary reputations have been so treated!

Mary Russell Mitford

His speech flows not from vanity or lust of praise, but from sheer necessity; — the reservoir is full, and runs over.

Mary Russell Mitford

Mary Russell Mitford

Mary Russell Mitford

Born: December 16, 1787

Died: January 10, 1855 (aged 67)

Bio: Mary Russell Mitford was an English author and dramatist. She was born at Alresford, Hampshire. She is best known in English literature for Our Village.

Known for:

Our Village (1824)
Belford Regis: Or Sketches of a Country Town (1835)
Christina, The Maid of The South Seas (1811)
Recollections of a Literary Life (1850)

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