C. J. Hamilton

Name: Notable Irishwomen — Lady Wilde
Author: C. J. Hamilton

Notable Irishwomen — Lady Wilde (1900)

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“Notable Irishwomen — Lady Wilde”, published in 1900, is a work by C. J. Hamilton. It explores elements such as Lady Wilde, Speranza and Gavan Duffy.

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C. J. Hamilton, Notable Irishwomen — Lady Wilde (1900)

“ Sir Robert Stewart brightened the dimly lit rooms with his cheery presence, and among this distinguished throng moved the tall figure of Speranza, a very queen of society, inspiring and inspired.
Writing in one of her essays about the faults of celebrated men of her time, Lady Wilde says with equal truth and eloquence:—
"Of what value to the world are the petty details of their weaknesses and failings? We want to know simply what great thoughts a man has added to the world's treasures, what great impulses he gave to the world's progress. ”

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C. J. Hamilton, Notable Irishwomen — Lady Wilde (1900)

“ When a stone was thrown in Smith O'Brien's face at Limerick, she wrote the following grandiloquent letter to Gavan Duffy:—
"What can be done with such idiots and savages? ...... This noble Smith O'Brien who has sacrificed all for the people, and who could gain nothing in return, for no position, however exalted, could add to his dignity, whose life has been a sacrifice to his country, a self-immolation,—and this is the man who has to be guarded by English from Irish murderers! I cannot endure to think of it. We are disgraced for ever before Europe, and justly so. ”

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C. J. Hamilton, Notable Irishwomen — Lady Wilde (1900)

“ Speranza's poems attracted much attention at the time. They were full of ardour, trumpet-calls to action, not feminine wailings for the past. Many thought that this stately daughter of an Irish archdeacon, with her dark flashing eyes, must be a man, and Gavan Duffy, when he went to see her at Leeson Street, was surprised to find that she was a girl of twenty. Of these much lauded verses hardly one has survived. They used to crop up in street ballads some years ago, but now they are like extinct volcanoes, their day is over, and there is no demand for them. ”

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C. J. Hamilton, Notable Irishwomen — Lady Wilde (1900)

“ Her judgment was often wrong, but no one could deny that she was a lover of noble things, that her aims were high, though she failed to see the best means of carrying them out for the real good of her country. ”

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C. J. Hamilton, Notable Irishwomen — Lady Wilde (1900)

“ Of a man who marries an unappreciative wife she says, "He cannot resist the fatal miasma of the common-place, he falls into the dull abyss of mediocrity. We are not proof against any of the daily influences, however trivial, that surround us.... Let all genius remain unwed."
Another of Speranza's undertakings was to translate from the German a novel called "Sidonia the Sorceress," and a remarkable philosophical work of German fiction, in three volumes, " The First Temptation." ”

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C. J. Hamilton, Notable Irishwomen — Lady Wilde (1900)

“ Can souls be parted that love and trust!
Speranza's poems, though often forceful, are never musical; she never wrote a real song, though sometimes she comes near it.
She could not write an ordinary letter like any ordinary person. Here is one, given by Sir Charles Gavan Duffy in his interesting book, "My Life in Two Hemispheres." ”

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C. J. Hamilton, Notable Irishwomen — Lady Wilde (1900)

“ Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde
("Speranza.")
1826-1896.
THERE is no doubt about Lady Wilde being a notable Irishwoman, yet, all the same, it is by no means an easy task to write even a slight sketch of her life. She was a complex and many-sided woman, holding a conspicuous place in Dublin, and afterwards in London society, as well as in the literature of her native country. Like all women of a strong and pronounced individuality, she was most attractive to some people, and equally unattractive to others. ”

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C. J. Hamilton, Notable Irishwomen — Lady Wilde (1900)

“ The first that came to Ireland was the great-grandfather of Speranza, and the name finally settled down into its present form. Lady Wilde's grandfather, Archdeacon Elgee, rector of Wexford, played a remarkable part in the days of the rebellion of '98, and on account of his popularity was left uninjured by the rebels of that time. Her mother, Sarah Kingsbury, was the daughter of Dr. Thomas Kingsbury, Commissioner in Bankruptcy, and owner of the well-known mansion, Lisle House, Dublin. Her uncle, Sir Charles Ormsby, Bart., was a member of the last Irish Parliament. ”

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