C. J. Hamilton

Name: Notable Irishwomen — The Countess of Cork and Orrery
Author: C. J. Hamilton

Notable Irishwomen — The Countess of Cork and Orrery (1900)

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“Notable Irishwomen — The Countess of Cork and Orrery”, published in 1900, is a work by C. J. Hamilton. It explores elements such as Lady Cork, Monckton and Fanny Burney.

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C. J. Hamilton, Notable Irishwomen — The Countess of Cork and Orrery (1900)

“ Johnson, Burke, Goldsmith, Boswell, and Reynolds, she went on to Sheridan, Moore, Byron, Kemble, and other lesser notabilities. She either had a dinner party, a reception, or else she went out every night of her life. Society was as the breath of her nostrils, she was never so much at her ease as when she was receiving guests, or exhibiting lions, literary or otherwise. Though she rarely seems to have visited Ireland, on her mother's side, at any rate, she came of a thoroughly Irish stock—the family of Westenra. Her Irish blood came out in her temperament ”

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C. J. Hamilton, Notable Irishwomen — The Countess of Cork and Orrery (1900)

“ She never sought out people merely for their rank or riches, but because she enjoyed their society. Her parties were the pleasantest in London, because they were exempt from the monotony that then brooded over the leaders of English fashion. ”

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C. J. Hamilton, Notable Irishwomen — The Countess of Cork and Orrery (1900)

“ The Celtic temperament is eminently social; the variety, the movement, the excitement of society are congenial to it.
Next to Frenchwomen, the Irish are the best hostesses. Who that has ever been at one of Lady Wilde's receptions in that well-known house at Oakley Street, can forget how admirably she received her guests, saying the right thing to each, and making even the most obscure guest feel at home.
A born leader of society was the woman whose name stands at the head of this article. For sixty years she kept a mimic court at which every celebrity of any kind was welcome. ”

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C. J. Hamilton, Notable Irishwomen — The Countess of Cork and Orrery (1900)

“ You are a fool, child; you don't know your own interests. Here James, William, Thomas, send one of the chairmen to Stanhope Street, for Miss Owenson's harp.'
"Led on by Dr. Johnson's celebrated 'little dunce,' I was at once merged in that crowd of elegants and elegantes, amongst which was a strikingly sullen-looking, handsome creature, the soon-to-be-celebrated Lord Byron. I found myself pounced down upon a sort of rustic seat by Lady Cork. ”

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C. J. Hamilton, Notable Irishwomen — The Countess of Cork and Orrery (1900)

“ But even her vitality gave way at last, and she died in her ninety-fourth year, May 20th, 1840. She formed a link between the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries, and filled a niche in society that no woman but herself could have occupied. ”

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C. J. Hamilton, Notable Irishwomen — The Countess of Cork and Orrery (1900)

“ Miss Burney adds, "She has an easy levity in her air and manner, that speaks all to be comfortable within, and her rage of seeing anything curious may be satisfied, if she pleases, by looking into a mirror." Miss Monckton told one story which Fanny Burney pronounced to be extremely worth relating. It was about the Duke of Devonshire, who happened to be at an assembly, and was standing close to a very fine glass lustre. By carelessly lolling back, he knocked the lustre down and it was broken to atoms. The people of the house, be it said, were not rich enough to bear the loss with unconcern. ”

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C. J. Hamilton, Notable Irishwomen — The Countess of Cork and Orrery (1900)

“ They dug for gold (or) and they acted a passion for rage, and then acted a storm for the whole word orage. Still the old General did not come, and Lady Caroline disappeared; but previously Mrs. Wellesley Pole and her daughter arrived, bringing a beautiful Prince with them, Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg, (afterwards married to the Princess Charlotte) . She feared Blucher would not come. ”

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