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Excerpt from The Autobiography and Correspondence of Mrs. Delany, Vol. 1 of 2 Of an ancient family, allied by blood or marriage to many of the illustrious houses in England, and distin guished among her contemporaries for elegance of acquire ment and worth of character, Mrs. Delany presents an admirable example of the most finished type of a Chris tian gentlewoman. No less an authority than Edmund Burke said of her, She is not only the woman of fashion in her own age, she is the highest-bred woman in the world, and the woman of fashion of all ages. This is weighty encomium, but Mrs. Delany deserves a higher still. Modest, high-minded, discriminating, just, loyal alike to principle and to affection, admirable as wife, daughter, sister, friend, her merits as a woman outshine her lustre as grands dam, and commend her to the love and admiration of all who are capable of reverencing excellence in womanhood, no matter in what age or coun try it is exhibited. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.