TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE
Handwriting on [frontispiece] and images on pages [62], [260], [300], and [386] appears to be original to the images, and has been retained in captions.
Footnote anchors are denoted by [number], and the footnotes have been placed at the end of the chapter.
Original cover has the title “The Life and Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford”, which did not reflect the title on the titlepage. The new original cover art included with this eBook is granted to the public domain.
Some minor changes to the text are noted at [the end of the book], as well as an image of the original cover.
MARY RUSSELL MITFORD
MY COTTAGE in “OUR VILLAGE”.
M R Mitford
Miss Mitford’s Cottage at Three Mile Cross.
(From a lithograph published by Mr. Lovejoy, of Reading, while Miss Mitford was in residence.)
MARY RUSSELL
MITFORD
The Tragedy of a Blue Stocking
By
W. J. ROBERTS
(Author of “The Love Story of Empress Josephine,” “Literary
Landmarks of Torquay,” etc.).
Illustrated from Photographs by the Author and from
Contemporary Pictures.
LONDON: ANDREW MELROSE
3 YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN, W.C.
1913
Dedication.
To
CONSTANCE, LADY RUSSELL,
of Swallowfield Park,
I Dedicate this Book as a slight token of Gratitude
For the Help and Encouragement she
has so graciously afforded me
in its Compilation.
W. J. ROBERTS
London,
March, 1913.