The Widow’s Cottage - Blind Ellen one - Hers not the Sorrows or Adventures of Heroines - What these are, first described - Deserted Wives; rash Lovers; courageous Damsels: in desolated Mansions; in grievous Perplexity - These Evils, however severe, of short Duration - Ellen’s Story - Her Employment in Childhood - First Love; first Adventure; its miserable Termination - An Idiot Daughter - A Husband - Care in Business without Success - The Man’s Despondency and its Effect - Their Children: how disposed of - One particularly unfortunate - Fate of the Daughter
- Ellen keeps a School and is happy - becomes Blind; loses her School - Her Consolations.
OBSERVE yon tenement, apart and small,
Where the wet pebbles shine upon the wall;
Where the low benches lean beside the door,
And the red paling bounds the space before;
Where thrift and lavender, and lad’s-love bloom, -
That humble dwelling is the widow’s home;
There live a pair, for various fortunes known,