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Not long ago, a party of friends were sitting at luncheon in a suburb of London, when one of them happened to make some reference to Maple Grove and Selina, and to ask in what county of England Maple Grove was situated. Everybody immediately had a theory. Only one of the company (a French gentleman, not well acquainted with English) did not recognise the allusion. A lady sitting by the master of the house (she will, I hope, forgive me for quoting her words, for no one else has a better right to speak them) said, 'What a curious sign it is of Jane Austen's. | A Book of Sibyls by 1 A Book of Sibyls by Anne Thackeray Mrs. Richmond Ritchie This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title A Book of Sibyls Miss Barbauld Miss Edgeworth Mrs Opie Miss Austen Author Anne Thackeray Mrs. Richmond Ritchie Release Date November 9 2009 EBook 30435 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A BOOK OF SIBYLS Produced by Delphine Lettau and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http www.pgdp.net This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive Canadian Libraries A BOOK OF SIBYLS MRS BARBAULD MISS EDGEWORTH MRS OPIE MISS AUSTEN A Book of Sibyls by 2 BY MISS THACKERAY MRS RICHMOND RITCHIE LONDON SMITH ELDER CO. 15 WATERLOO PLACE 1883 All rights reserved Reprinted from the Cornhill Magazine TO MRS OLIPHANT My little record would not seem to me in any way complete without your name dear Sibyl of our own and as I write it here I am grateful to know that to mine and me it is not only the name of a Sibyl with deep visions but of a friend to us all. A. T. R. PREFACE. Not long ago a party of friends were sitting at luncheon in a suburb of London when one of them happened to make some reference to Maple Grove and Selina and to ask in what county of England Maple Grove was situated. Everybody immediately had a theory. Only one of the company a French gentleman not well acquainted with English did not recognise the allusion. A lady sitting by the master of the house she will I hope forgive me for quoting her words for no one else has a better right to speak them said What a curious sign it is of Jane Austen s increasing popularity Here are five out of six people sitting round a table nearly a hundred years after her death who all recognise at once a chance .
