Threescore Years and Ten: Reminiscences of the Late Sophia Elizabeth de Morgan; To Which Are (Classic Reprint)

Sophia Elizabeth Frend, the writer of the following reminiscences, was born on November 10,1809, in Bridge Street, Blackfriars, at the Rock Insurance Office, of which her father was then actuary. Although Bridge Street was not then, as now, encircled by miles of houses extending in all directions, and open ground could be reached in a moderate walk, still, it was the centre of London smoke, at that time heavier and thicker in proportion to the size of the city; and my mother, whose love of the country was always excessive, often spoke of the sadness with which her city surroundings filled her as a child, and the intense joy she felt at the change to Stoke Newington, then almost country, when, in 1819, her family moved there to the fine old house, with a beautiful garden, in which most of her girlhood was spent.
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