Lady Morgan’s Memoirs
Journal entries: April 1842
April 12, 1842.—Talk to me of your gardens! I have at this moment, perfuming my rooms, twelve
hyacinths, mignionette, sweet briar, and verbenas; fellow me that in your garden!
My right eye is very weak and painful, causing me ![]()
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to spare it as much as possible. You have got the Athey., and books to keep you
au courant. We had Captain Marryatt to dine with us on Saturday,
a pleasant, cosy little day, and I bore it very well, although Morgan exclaimed against my lights, and wanted to extinguish them; but I
would rather give up my rouge than my lamps,
et c’est de beaucoup
dire.
I can do nothing for your young friend,
P——; never encourage young people to
suppose they are to throw themselves on their friends; they should be early
taught to have no dependence but upon their own exertions. At fourteen, I
worked for myself, and disdained living on my fine relations, the
Croftons, and if I was left destitute to-morrow, I
should begin and write again, as of old. How often have I preached this to you
all?
Well, I am working at my Gate;
the Cannon Brewery is blown down, and the Counter
intrigue blown up. We have got the Duchess of Kent on our side, and that there is a
likelihood of our having the Queen, whom
we have petitioned. Lord Duncannon is dead
against us, but I do not despair, for it will be a great public benefit.
April 17.—Hurrah! have got my Gate, just as we got
Catholic Emancipation, by worrying for it!
Frederick Marryat (1792-1848)
Sea-captain and novelist; he published
The Naval Officer, or, Scenes
and Adventures in the Life of Frank Mildmay, 3 vols (1829) and edited the
Metropolitan Magazine (1832-35).
Sir Thomas Charles Morgan (1780-1843)
English physician and philosophical essayist who married the novelist Sydney Owenson in
1812; he was the author of
Sketches of the Philosophy of Morals
(1822). He corresponded with Cyrus Redding.
John William Ponsonby, fourth earl of Bessborough (1781-1847)
The son of Frederick Ponsonby, third earl of Bessborough (d. 1844) and elder brother of
Lady Caroline Lamb; he was a Whig MP (1805-34), home secretary (1834-35), and
lord-lieutenant of Ireland (1846-47).
Victoria Mary Louise, duchess of Kent (1786-1861)
The daughter of Francis, duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, in 1803 she married Emich Charles,
prince of Leiningen, and in 1818 the Duke of Kent. She was the mother of Queen
Victoria
