193:"In this highly interesting volume, abundant proofs are given of the fertile, we might say gorgeous, imagination, and the ready corresponding power of language of the fair authoress. If our commendation can afford any gratification, we willingly offer it, especially as regards the very great power both of thought and language, of which she evidently possesses so large a fund." -
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Herbert married the surgeon Thomas Mills in the Parish of
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which reads: "To my widowed mother and her brothers Arthur Craven Barlow and Thomas
William Barlow Esq., of Dublin"). Both were prominent in society, the latter being for many years the solicitor for the Board of Ordnance in Ireland, and both married into the Jeffares family of Wexford. Following the
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of 8 November 1839, while her mother and some of her siblings attended to the farm of about 50 acres. The article states the family moved in a respectable station in society. Her mother, Elizabeth Jane, was a sister of Arthur Craven Barlow, Esq., of
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Augustus Herbert (1808â1848) a Master Mariner who married Matilda Elizabeth Lacy. They had five daughters, Jane Emily, Helen Matilda, Matilda Elizabeth, Louisa Anne and Alice Sabrina. Henry died in Calcutta, India, in 1848 and in 1862 his wife and 4 of their daughters immigrated to
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death of Arthur's first wife, Susannah, about one year after their marriage, he married
Dorothy Cooper, daughter of John Cooper of Birchgrove, Wexford. Their children immigrated to New Zealand, while most of Thomas William and Ann Jeffare's children immigrated to Australia.
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and one of whose productions we published a few weeks since, is nearly restored to health. She has been staying a short time on a visit to her brother the Rev. T. W. Herbert, in St. Thomas, where she was taken dangerously ill, and left this (Friday) morning for
Bristol."
123:"Beyond a doubt Miss Herbert is now the legitimate successor, in the female line, to the laurel vacant by the death of Mrs Hemans. ... Her lyre resounds with the music of almost every species of English heroical metre and in all shows the facility of a practiced mind." -
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181:, we again gladly welcome as proofs we committed no error in judgement in thinking, when we first made acquaintance with the fair author's muse, that the mantle of Mrs Hemans had not remained unappropriated." -
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