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While her father was Consul in Paris, she assisted her mother in entertaining foreign and domestic dignitaries. In the days so alarming for all Paris, the
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Being obliged to go abroad, Emily's parents placed her in the Inglis-McCleod school. Her education continued later in France and Italy, where every opportunity for study was given her, and she became an accomplished linguist. In 1846, in Paris, she was presented at the court of Louis
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160:. The Goodrich house was constantly filled with terror-stricken foreigners, who found their only safety under the protection of the American flag. Returning to the U.S., in 1856, she wrote many stories and verses for magazines, her letters during the
354:(1893) that Emily's mother was Adeline Gratia Bradley, who died in 1822, but as Emily was born in 1829, this is incorrect. It is more likely that Emily's mother is Mary Boott, which was recorded by Willard & Livermore (1893), among others.
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