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    THE DEATH OF MRS. JAMESON, 143

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    Tradition says he lived there ; at any rate the present building is of the date AD 800 ; and built on tlie foundation of one much

    .. older . In this church she delighted , and to it she would take any one who sympathised with her peculiar feeling * for art . Her talk , as the books she

    she described it , was a running commentary on publi At shed the tim on e kindred of her subj death ects she . was engaged on the last of the

    series : a " History of the Life of Our Lord , and of his Precursor , StJohn the Baptist"withthe Personages and Typical Subjects of

    the . Old Testament , as ; represented , in Christian Art . " The third epoch of Mrs . Jameson ' s literary life is represented by

    her two lectures and her " Letter to Lord John Russell . " They are now published in one closely-printed volume , but they must have to nothinof

    cost her a very great deal of research and labor , say g * institutions personal inspection . She reviews , at different all the times branches of her of life benevolent , of innumerable work

    attended to by Sisters' of Charity in foreign countries , and considers what schools leads may that , hosp be women itals effected , workhouses here take by their , Protestants all engage share in : her prisons every attention good , reform - ; work and atories with she , may

    p men . When the " Letter to Lord John Russell" -was written and publi subjects she , d and , she I said must , " return Now to I have art . " said But all to had I those she can live moral say d upon she would these

    which inevitabl were y have to returned her of such again vital and importance again . For instance questions , she attended the Social Science Meeting at Bradford in last October ,

    and sat during the whole of one day in the Section B _., where papers joined on the in emp the loyment discussion of women which ensued were . being When read Mrs , and . Jameson occasionall spoke y ,

    to a deep see the hu intense sh fell upon interest the she crowded excited assembl . Her y age . , It and was the quite comparative singular

    refinement of her mental powers , had prevented her sphere of action from course being created exactl a stronger y " popular desire " to in see the and modern hear her sense of , whom and this every of

    one had heard so much in the world of higher literature , but of voice whom fell they like knew a hush little upon personall the y crowded . Her room sin in gularl , her and y low every and htful eye gen bent and tle

    eagerly upon her , and every ear drank thoug "weighty words . from And Bri now hton she where is gone she , —so resided suddenl to y . work She at came the up " Life to London of Our

    Lord . " g At the , British Museumwhither , she went to inspect some prints of the , lungs she caug and ht on a Saturday severe cold evening , , which the increased 17 th of to March inflammation , within

    eight days of ; her seizure , she passed , ' away , in the vigor of her warm heart and beautiful intellectat the comparatively early time

    , of old age , —sixty-five years .

    The Death Of Mrs. Jameson, 143

    THE DEATH OF MRS . JAMESON , 143

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1860, page 143, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041860/page/71/