Mrs. Stretton. Anne
Manning
By Charlotte M. Yonge
The three ladies here grouped together are similar in the purity and principle which breathe throughout their writings, though different in other respects. The first named wrote in the stress, and later in the calm, of a religious struggle; the second in the peaceful, fond memory of a happy home-life; the third in the pleasurable realisation of historic days long gone by. In each case, the life is reflected in the books.
Lady Georgiana Fullerton
Georgiana Charlotte Leveson Gower was born on September 23, 1812, being the second daughter of one of those noble families predestined, by their rank and condition, to a
diplomatic course. Her father became ultimately Earl Granville, and when his little daughter was twelve years old, he received the appointment of ambassador at Paris. It is well known that the upper diplomatic circles form the crème de la crème of aristocratic society, their breeding, refinement1, knowledge of man and manners, as well as their tact2, being almost necessarily of the highest order. Lady Granville was noted3 for her admirable management of her receptions, and her power of steering4 her way through the motley crowd of visitors and residents presented to her. The charm of her manner was very remarkable5, and made a great impression on all who came in her way. And, giving reality and absolute sincerity6 to all this unfailing sweetness, Lady Granville was a deeply religious and conscientious7 woman, who trained her daughters to the highest standard of excellence8, and taught them earnest devotion.
Naturally, French was as familiar to the young ladies as English, and they became intimate with many of the best and purest families in France, among others, with that of de Ferronaye, whose memoirs9, as told by one of them, Mrs. Augustus Craven, has touched many hearts. It was a happy life, in which study and accomplishment10 had their place, and gaieties did not lose the zest11 of youthful enjoyment12 because they were part of the duty of station.
Between France and England the time of the family was spent, and, in 1833, both sisters were married—Lady Georgiana on July 13, to Alexander Fullerton, heir to considerable estates in Gloucestershire and in Ireland. He had been in the Guards, but had resigned his commission, and become an attaché to the Embassy at Paris. There the young couple continued, and there, at the end of the year, was born their only child, a son, whose very delicate health was a constant anxiety.
In 1841 Lord Granville ceased to be ambassador, and the whole family led a wandering life in the South of France, Italy, and Germany, interspersed13 with visits in England. In 1843 Mr. Fullerton, after long study of the controversy14, was received into the Church of Rome. His wife had always greatly delighted in the deep and beautiful rites15 of that communion, in its best aspects, and many of her most intimate friends were devout16 and enlightened members of that Church; but she had been bred up as a faithful Anglican, and she made no change as long as her father lived. The tale on which her chief fame rests was the product of the heart-searchings that she underwent, at the very time when the thoughts and studies of good men were tending to discover neglected truths in the Church of England.
Lady Georgiana said, in her old age, that she had never written for her own pleasure, or to find expression of feeling, but always with a view to the gains for her charities. She would rather have written poetry, and the first impulse was given by her publisher telling her that she would find a novel far more profitable than verses. Yet it is hardly possible to believe that when once embarked17 she did not write from her heart. She was a long time at work on her tale, which was written during sojourns18 at various continental19 resorts, and finally submitted to two such different critics as Lord Brougham and Charles Greville, both of whom were carried away by admiration20 of the wonderful pathos21 of the narrative22, and the charm of description, as well as the character-drawing. It is, however, curious that, while marking some lesser23 mistakes, neither advised her to avoid the difficulty which makes the entire plot an impossibility, namely, the omission24 of an inquest, which must have rendered the secrecy25 of “Ellen Middleton” out of the question.
The story opens most effectively with the appearance of a worn and wasted worshipper in Salisbury Cathedral. One of the canons becomes interested, and with much difficulty induces her to confide26 her griefs to him in an autobiography27, which she had intended to be read only after her death. The keynote of Ellen’s misfortunes is a
slight blow, given in a moment of temper, at fifteen years old, to her cousin, a naughty child of eight, causing a fatal fall into the river below. No one knows the manner of the disaster, except two persons whose presence was unknown to her: Henry Lovell, a relative of the family, and his old nurse, whom he swears to silence.
This woman, however, cannot refrain from strewing28 mysterious hints in Ellen’s way, and Henry Lovell obtains a power over the poor girl which is the bane of her life. His old nurse (by very unlikely means) drives him into a marriage with her grand-daughter, Alice, whose lovely, innocent, devotional character, is one of the great charms of the book. Ellen, almost at the same time, marries her cousin, Edward Middleton, whom she loves with all her heart; but he is a hard man, severe in his integrity, and his distrust is awakened29 by Henry’s real love for Ellen, and the machinations by which he tries to protect her from the malice30 of the old nurse. The net closes nearer and nearer round Ellen, till at last Edward finds her on her knees before Henry, conjuring31 him to let her confess her secret. Without giving her a hearing, Edward commands her to quit his house. A letter from Henry, declaring that she is his own, and that she will not escape him, drives her to seek concealment32 at Salisbury, where she is dying of consumption, caused by her broken heart,
when the good canon finds her, gives her absolution, and brings about repentance33, reconciliation34, and an infinite peace, in which we are well content to let her pass away, tended by her husband, her mother-like aunt, and the gentle Alice.
It is altogether a fine tragedy. The strong passions of Henry Lovell, the enthusiastic nature of Ellen, beaten back in every higher flight by recurring35 threats from her enemies, the unbending nature of Edward, and in the midst the exquisite36 sweetness of Alice, like a dove in the midst of the tempest, won all hearts, either by the masterly analysis of passion or by the beauty of delineation37, while the religious side of the tale was warmly welcomed by those who did not think, like Lord Brougham, that it was “rank Popery.” The sense of the power and beauty of the story is only enhanced by freshly reading it after the lapse38 of many years.
Naturally, it was a great success, and the second book, “Grantley Manor,” which was not published till after her father’s death and her own secession to Rome, was floated up on the same tide of popularity. It contrasted two half-sisters, Margaret and Ginevra, one wholly English, the other half Italian by race and entirely39 so by breeding. Still, though Ginevra is the more fascinating, Margaret is her superior in straightforward40 truth. For, indeed, Lady
Georgiana never fell into the too frequent evil of depreciation41 and contempt of the system she had quitted, and remained open-minded and loving to the last. The excellence of style and knowledge of character as well as the tone of high breeding which are felt in all these writings recommended both this and “Ladybird,” published in 1852. Both are far above the level of the ordinary novel, and some readers preferred “Ladybird” to the two predecessors42.
In the meantime, an estate in England at Midgham had become a home, and young Granville Fullerton had gone into the army. On the 29th of May 1855, he was cut off by a sudden illness, and his parents’ life was ever after a maimed one, though full of submission43 and devotion. Externally, indeed, Lady Georgiana still showed her bright playfulness of manner, and keen interest in all around her, so that the charm of her society was very great, but her soul was the more entirely absorbed in religion and in charity, doing the most menial offices for the sick poor and throwing herself into the pleasures of little children. She questioned with herself whether she ought to spend time in writing instead of on her poor, when the former task meant earning two hundred pounds a year for them, but she decided44 on uniting the two occu
pations, the more readily because she found that her works had a good influence and helped on a religious serial45 in which she took a warm interest.
But her motifs46 were now taken from history, not actual life. “La Comtesse de Boneval” is a really marvellous tour de force, being a development from a few actual letters written by a poor young wife, whose reluctant husband left her, after ten days, for foreign service, and never returned. Lady Georgiana makes clear the child’s hero-worship, the brief gleam of gladness, the brave resolve not to interfere48 with duty and honour, and the dreary49 deserted50 condition. All is written in French, not only pure and grammatical, but giving in a wonderful manner the epigrammatic life and freshness of the old Parisian society. This is really the ablest, perhaps the most pathetic, of her books.
“Ann Sherwood” is a picture of the sufferings of the Romanists in Elizabethan times, “A Stormy Life” is the narrative of a companion of Margaret of Anjou—both showing too much of the author’s bias51. “Too Strange not to be True” is founded on a very curious story, disinterred by Lord Dover, purporting52 that the unhappy German wife of the ferociously53 insane son of Peter the Great, at the point of death from his brutality54, was smuggled55 away by her servants, with the help of Countess
Konigsmark, the mother of Marshal Saxe, while a false funeral took place. She was conveyed to the French Settlements in Louisiana, and there, after hearing that the Czarowitz was dead, she married a French gentleman, the Chevalier d’Auban. Here, in these days of one-volume tales, the story might well have ended, but Lady Georgiana pursues the history through the latter days of the princess, after she had returned to Europe and had been bereaved56 of her husband and her daughter. She lived at Brussels, and again met Marshal Saxe in her extreme old age. The figures of the Chevalier, and the sweet daughter, Mina, are very winning and graceful57, and there are some most interesting descriptions of the Jesuit missions to the Red Indians; but, as a whole, the book had better have closed with the marriage with d’Auban.
There is little more to say of Lady Georgiana’s life. It was always affectionate, cheerful and unselfish, and it became increasingly devout as she grew older. After a long illness, she died at Bournemouth, on the 19th of January 1885, remembered fondly by many, and honoured by all who knew her saintly life. As to literary fame, she may be described as having written one first-rate book and a number fairly above the average.
Mrs. Stretton
About the same time as “Ellen Middleton” appeared, a novel was making its way rather by force of affectionate family portraiture58 than by plot or incident. “The Valley of a Hundred Fires” is really and truly Mrs. Stretton’s picture of her father and mother, and her home; and her mother is altogether her heroine, while old family habits and anecdotes59 are given with only a few alterations60. “The Valley of the Hundred Fires” has been placed by her on the borders of Wales, but it really was Gateshead, in Durham, quite as black and quite as grimy as the more southern region, inasmuch as no flowers would grow in the Rectory garden which, nevertheless, the children loved so heartily61 as to call it dear old Dingy62. (It is Cinder63 Tip in the story.) Literally64, they lived so as to show that
“Love’s a flower that will not die
For lack of leafy screen;
And Christian65 hope may cheer the eye
That ne’er saw vernal green;”
and that—at least, in the early days of this century—an abnormally large family was no misfortune to themselves or their parents.
The real name was Collinson, and the deep goodness and beneficence of the father, the Reverend John Collinson, and the undaunted cheerfulness, motherliness, and discipline of Emily, his wife, shine throughout, not at all idealised. The number of their children was fifteen, ten daughters and five sons; and the second daughter, Julia Cecilia, was, as she describes herself, a tall, lank66, yellow baby who was born on the 25th of November 1812. She became as the eldest67 daughter to the others, for there had always been a promise that if there were several girls the eldest should be adopted by her aunt, wife to a clergyman and childless.
The two homes were a great contrast: the one kept in absolute order and great refinement, with music and flowers the constant delight and occupation, and the single adopted child trained up in all the precision of the household; while the other was a house of joyous68 freedom, kept under the needful restraints of sound religious principle, discipline and unselfishness. The story went that when the children were asked how many of them there were, they answered, “One young lady and eight little girls.” Mrs. Collinson used to say, that if she ever saw any signs that her “one young lady” was either pining for companionship, or growing spoilt by the position, she would recall her at once; but the child was always happy and obedient,
and pleased to impart her accomplishments69 to her sisters, who admired without jealousy70. Comical adventures are recorded in the “Valley,” such as when the whole train of little damsels, walking out under the convoy71 of Julia and a young nurserymaid, encountered a bull, which had lifted a gate on its horns. The maid thrust the baby into Julia’s arms and ran away, while her charges retired72 into a ditch, the elder ones not much alarmed, because, as they said, the bull could not hurt them with the gate on its horns. It passed safely by them; but the little ones confessed to having been dreadfully frightened by a snail73 in the ditch, “which put out its horns like a little Kerry cow,” and it creeped and it creeped!
One incident in their early childhood was the rioting that pervaded74 the collieries in the years immediately following the great French war. Mr. Collinson, being a magistrate75, was called upon to accompany the dragoons in order to read the Riot Act. He thus left his family unprotected; but the seven thousand pitmen never touched the Rectory, and, according to the “Valley,” replied courteously76 to two of the children, who rushed out to the top of the Cinder Tip, begging to know whether they had seen “our papa” and if he was safe.
There was another sadder episode, related also with much feeling, though a little altered, for it concerned the
second son, not the eldest (then the only son) as described. A blow from a cricket ball did irreparable mischief77 to his knee, and it was suddenly decreed that amputation78 was necessary, long before the days of chloroform. The father was away from home, the mother sentenced not to be present, and the doctors consented that Julia should hold the patient’s hand, smooth his hair, and try to tell him stories through the operation. It was successfully and bravely carried out, but the evil was not removed, and a few weeks later this much-loved boy was taken away. The circumstances, very beautiful and consoling, are given in the story; and there too is told how, before sunset on that sad day, the ninth little daughter was given, and struggled hard for the vigorous life she afterwards attained79.
The “Parson’s man” said one day, when his mistress, for once in her life, indulged in a sigh that her garden could never rival that of her sister, “We’ve got the finer flowers, ma’am.”
Education was not the tyrannical care in those days that it is at present, and the young people obtained it partly through their parents, some at school, and some by the help of their grandmother and their aunt, but mostly by their own intelligence and exertions80; and the family income was augmented81 by Mr. Collinson taking pupils.
He had a fair private income; he had a curate, and was able to give a good education to his sons, one of whom made himself a name as Admiral Collinson, one of the Arctic explorers. If there were anxieties, they did not tell upon the children, whose memories reflect little save sunshine.
At nineteen, Julia Collinson became the wife of Walter de Winton, Esquire, of Maedlwch Castle, Radnorshire; but after only twelve years was left a widow, with two sons and a daughter. Her life was devoted82 to making their home as bright and joyous as her own had been; and it was only in the loneliness that ensued on the children going to school that her authorship commenced, with a child’s book called “The Lonely Island.”
Later she wrote “The Valley of the Hundred Fires,” tracing the habits, characters and the destiny of the family of Gateshead. The father was by this time dead, and extracts from his sermons and diary appear; but “Emily,” the mother, is the real heroine of the whole narrative, and though there is so little plot that it hardly deserves the name of novel, there is a wonderful charm in the delineation. There are a few descriptions of manners and of dresses which are amusing; nor must we omit the portrait of the grandmother, Mrs. King (called Reine in the
book), daughter to the governor of one of the colonies in America before the separation, with the manners of her former princess-ship and something of the despotism. She was a friend of Hannah More, a beneficent builder of schools, and produced a revolt by herself cutting the hair of all the scholars!
“The Queen of the County” relates Mrs. de Winton’s experiences of elections among “the stormy hills of Wales” in the early days of the Reform Bill. “Margaret and her Bridesmaids” draws more upon invention. Each of two young girls, through the injudiciousness of her parents, has married the wrong person. Margaret acquiesces83 too much in her husband’s indolence, and when herself roused to the perception of duty tries in vain to recover lost ground. Her friend Lottie is a high-spirited little soul, determined84 to do her duty as a wife, but not to pretend the love she does not feel, till it has been won. She is rather provokingly and unnaturally85 perfect, especially as she is only seventeen, always knowing when to obey up to the letter in a manner which must so have “riled” her husband that his persistent86 love is hardly credible87, though it shows itself in attempts to isolate88 her, so that she shall have no resource save himself. His endeavours bring upon him heart complaint, whereof he dies, under her tender care, though she never affects to be
grief-stricken. Only, as Margaret has lost her husband about the same time in a yachting accident, Lottie refuses to listen to the addresses of a former lover of Margaret’s until she is convinced both that her friend will never form another attachment89 and that the original passion she had inspired is absolutely dead. There is a good deal of character in the story, though overdrawn90, and it has survived so as to call for a new edition.
To her children, as well as to her many nephews and nieces, Mrs. de Winton was a charming companion-mother, always fresh, young, vigorous and as full of playfulness as the Julia who led the band of little sisters. When all her children were grown up, in 1858, she married Richard William Stretton, who had been their guardian91 and an intimate friend of the family, by whom he was much beloved. He died in 1868, and Mrs. Stretton followed him on the 17th of July 1878, leaving behind her one of the brightest of memories. Her books are emphatically herself in their liveliness, their tenderness, their fond enshrining of the past.
Anne Manning
The third of our group had an even more eventless life, and, instead of letting her imagination dwell on her own past, she studied the women of past history, and realised what they must have felt and thought in the scenes where most of them figure only as names. Her father belonged to the higher professional class, and lived with his large family, of whom Anne was the eldest, at the Paragon92, Chelsea, where at eight years old Anne listened to the crash of the carriages, when the Bourbons were on their return to France, and witnessed the ecstasy93 of London on the visit of the Allied94 Sovereigns after Waterloo.
With the help of masters for special accomplishments, the daughters had the best of educations, namely, the stimulating95 influence of their father, an accomplished96 man, for whom they practised their music, wrote their themes, went out star-gazing, and studied astronomy, listening with delight to his admirable reading of Scott or Shakspere; they also had the absolute freedom of an extensive library. Anne Manning was pronounced to be no genius, but a most diligent97, industrious98 girl; as indeed was proved, for, becoming convinced during the brief reign47 of a good governess of the duty of solid
reading, she voluntarily read from the age of fourteen ten pages a day of real, if dry, history, persevering99 year after year, and thus unconsciously laying in a good foundation for her future work.
For health’s sake the family went into the country, where they became tenants100 of a tumble-down Cistercian priory on the borders of Salisbury Plain. The numerous girls, with their mother and governess, lived there constantly; the father coming down as often as his business would allow, almost always by the Saturday coach, to spend Sunday. Here the first literary venture was made, when Anne was about seventeen. It was a short dialogue on a serious subject, which a young aunt managed to get accepted in St. Paul’s Churchyard; and, as Miss Manning candidly101 avows102, was so well advertised privately103 by her fond grandfather that—such were the palmy days of authorship—five hundred copies brought her in a profit of ￡60.
The story, “Village Belles,” was completed at Tenby, the Priory having become too ruinous for habitation. It was put into the hands of Baldwin and Cradock, and no proofs were sent till the whole of the two first volumes came together. It was introduced to Mr. Manning thus, “Papa, I don’t know what you will say, but I have been writing a story.”
“Ho! ho! ho!” was his first answer, but he afterwards said, “My dear, I like your story very much”—and never again referred to it.
Her own after judgment104 was that it was an “incurably young, inexperienced tale which, after all top dressing105, remained but daisied meadow grass.”
Sorrow came in to fill the minds of the family (to the exclusion106 of mere107 fictitious108 interests) in the deaths within short intervals109 of two of the sisters, and their mother’s invalidism111, ending, within a few years, in her death. After this the winters were spent by the three sisters at the Paragon, the summers in a cottage at Penshurst, their father coming down for the Sunday. Anne Manning, meantime, was pursuing studies in painting and was an excellent amateur artist. She was also a botanist112, and this has much to do with her accuracy in writing details of country life and habits.
Dates, alas113! are wanting both in her own “Passages in the life of an Authoress,” and in the recollections of her kind and affectionate biographer, Mrs. Batty; but it seems to have been in 1849 that her “Maiden and Married Life of Mary Powell,” at first written to amuse herself and her sisters, and afterwards sent to assist a brother in Australia, who was starting a local magazine, was given
to the editor of “Sharpe’s Magazine,” then in its early youth.
It made her fame. Nobody had particularly thought of Milton in his domestic capacity before, except as having advocated divorce and made his daughters read Greek to him, and it was reserved for Miss Manning to make the wife paint her own portrait as the lively, eager girl, happy in country freedom with her brothers, important with her “housewife-skep” in her mother’s absence, pleased with dress, but touched by the beautiful countenance114 and the sudden admiration of the strange visitor. There proves to be a debt which makes her marriage with him convenient to the father, and it is carried out in spite of the mother’s strong objections, alike to the suitor’s age, his politics, and his puritanism. We go along with the country girl in her disappointment and sense of dreariness115 in her unaccustomed London life, in the staid and serious household, where she sorely misses her brothers and is soon condemned116 for love of junketing. Then come her joy in her visit to her home at Forest Hill and her reluctance117 to return, fortified118 by her father’s disapproval119 of Milton’s opinions. By the time that a visit to some wise relatives has brought her to a better mind and to yearning120 after her husband, Milton has taken offence and has put forth121 his plea for divorce, which so angers her father
that he will not hear of her return; nor does she go back till after many months and the surrender of Oxford122, when on her own impulse she hurries to London, meets her husband unexpectedly, and when he “looks down on her with goodness and sweetness ’tis like the sun’s gleams shining after rain.”
There Mary Powell’s journal ends. It is written in beautiful English, such as might well have been contemporary and could only have been acquired by familiarity with the writers of the period, flowing along without effort or pedantry123 so as to be a really successful imitation. It crept into separate publication anonymously124, and achieved a great success, being in fact the first of many books imitating the like style of autobiography; nor has it ever been allowed to drop into oblivion. It was followed up after a time by “Deborah’s Diary,” being the record supposed to be kept by Milton’s one faithful and dutiful daughter, who lived with him in his old age.
The “fascination of the old style,” as she calls it, led her to deal with “The Household of Sir Thomas More” in the person of his noble daughter Margaret. There was a good deal more genuine material here, and she has woven in the fragments from Erasmus and others with great ingenuity125, and imitated the style of the fifteenth century as well as she had done that of the seventeenth.
From that time Anne Manning’s books had a ready sale, though still her name did not appear. “Cherry and Violet” was a tale of the plague of London; “Edward Osborne” told of the apprentice126 who leapt from the window of a house on London Bridge to save his master’s daughter from drowning; “The Old Chelsea Bunhouse” described the haunts with which Miss Manning was familiar; and there were other stories of country life, such as the “Ladies of Bever Hollow.” All were written in the purest style, such as could only be attained by one to whom slip-shod writing was impossible, and to whom it was equally impossible not to write what was gentle, charitable, and full of religious principle.
Miss Manning was a kind friend and charming letter-writer. Her health began to fail in 1854, when she was writing for a magazine “Some Passages in the Life of an Authoress,” never completed. She continued to be an invalid110 under the care of her sisters till her death on the 14th of September, 1879.
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