Some Account of the Life of Rachael Wriothesley Lady Russell, by The Editor of Madame Du Deffand's Letters. Followed by, A Series of Letters from Lady Russell, from 1672 to 1682; Together with Some Miscellaneous Letters To and From Lady Russell. To which are added, Eleven Letters from Dorothy Sidney Countess of Sunderland, to George Saville Marquis of Hallifax. In the Year 1680.

London. Printed by Strathan and Spottiswoode, Printers-Street; for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown: and James Ridgway. 1819. 1819. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to. 28cm, first edition, ciii,150p., foot-notes, in half brown calf, gilt ruled raised bands, crushed crimson morocco label with gilt borders and titles, marbled boards, armorial bookplate, a fine copy attractively bound (). - Lady Russell married Lord Russell in 1669 and the series of letters, some addressed by her former married name "R. Vaughan", are to her husband are dated from 1672 to within a year of his execution in 1683. "These letters are written with such a neglect of style, and often of grammar, as may disgust the admirers of well-turned periods, and they contain such frequent repetitions of homely tenderness, as may shock the sentimental readers of the present days. But they evince the enjoyment of happiness, built on such rational foundations, and so truly appreciated by its possessors, as too seldom occurs in the history of the human heart" (editor). Item #28272

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