SOME FAMOUS OLD MAIDS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1971, 22 April 1885, Page 2

SOME FAMOUS OLD MAIDS.

Look at the list; Elizabeth of England,,* ' one of the most illustrious'of modern sovereigns. Her rule over Great Britain certainly comprised the most brilliant literary age of theEnglish-speakingpeqpje Her political aoumen was certainly'put to as severe 'tests'as that 'of any other rA the world ever saw, Maria .'EdgeworW was an old maid. It was this mean's writings that first suggested of writing similarly fo Sir Walter'-Scott. Her brain might well be oalled the mother of the Wavorley Novels. Jane;P('(rt'er lived . - and died an old maid, The 'children of herbusy brain woro "Thaddeuaof Warsaw' and "The Scottish Chiefs," which havo moved the hearts of millions"witli"excitement and tears. Florence Nightingale, moat gnwiouq My, liorqino of" Inkemian and Balaklaya hospitals, has to the present written "lJli§S !V 'bcf::re her flame;: Tim man who should" ji'cjr, might we'lj crave to tako the name of Nighhrigilo. Joanna Baillie, poot and play writor, was •'one of 'em," Sister Dora, the brave spirit of English pesthouses, whose story is as a helpful evangel, was the bride of "••• tho world b sorrow only. „■ Arid then, what v names could the writer and the reader add- A\ to those whom tho great; wjirld may not ' know, but we know; and the "little world of the village, the church, the family know, and _ prize b.eyond all worlds.—North British Advertiser.