Identifier: daughtersofgeni00part (find matches)
Title: Daughters of genius: a series of sketches of authors, artists, reformers, and heroines, queens, princesses, and women of society, women eccentric and peculiar, from the most recent and authentic sources
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Parton, James, 1822-1891
Subjects: Women
Publisher: Philadelphia, Hubbard Brothers
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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ay of his execution in1780, until 1821, when they were transferred to West-minster Abbey in London. His grave was dug directly bc-::>eath the gallows, and there he was interred at the depth ofthree or four feet. A peach-tree, planted by a sympatheticwomans hand to mark the grave, struck down its roots,pierced the coffin, and formed a net-work of fibres aroundthe skull. This tree was taken up with the remains andreplanted in one of the royal gardens in London. Theskeleton, enclosed in a mahogany coffin, which was 210 THE WIFE OF BENEDICT ARNOLD. exceedingly massive and richly decorated with gold, andcovered with velvet black and crimson, was conveyed toLondon in a British man-of-war, and interred in the abbeywith religious ceremonies, near the monument erected tohis honor by George the Third. For forty-one years thebody had remained in a cheap pine cofRn, painted black,and in the unhonored grave of a spy, to be buried at lastin the mausoleum of heroes, orators, poetS; and statesmen.
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v\^ ADELAIDE PROCTOR. xy. ADELAIDE PROCTER. THERE are many who love this sweet and gentlepoet. Patience, disinterested devotion, faith,earnestness, courage, these are the themes which inspiredher songs, and frequently the virtues which they directlyurge upon the reader. None of her poems lapse intorhymed sermons; they are true poems, when most moraland didactic. Of their authoress we know little, but thatlittle is just what it is most pleasing to know. We learn,on the authority of Charles Dickens, that her poems werebut the expression of her daily life; she was a too ardu-ous worker, a faithful friend, a devoted helper of the poorand suffering. When she was yet too young to write, Dickens tells us,in the preface which he wrote for an edition of her works,she had a little album made of small sheets of note-paperneatly sewed together, into which lier mother copied forher her favorite verses. This little book she read and re-read, and constantly carried about with her. In her studiesshe

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