TAILIEUCHUNG - Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life

I was born at Stoneleigh Abbey on October 29th, 1849. My father has told me that immediately afterwards--I suppose next day--I was held up at the window for the members of the North Warwickshire Hunt to drink my health. I fear that their kind wishes were so far of no avail that I never became a sportswoman, though I always lived amongst keen followers of the hounds. For many years the first meet of the season was held at Stoneleigh, and large hospitality extended to the gentlemen and farmers within the Abbey and to the crowd without. Almost anyone could get bread and cheese and. | Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life by 1 IFTY-ONE YEARS OF VICTORIAN LIFE ARGARET ELIZABETH LEIGH CHILD-VILLIERS Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life by Margaret Elizabeth Leigh Child-Villiers Countess of Jersey 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 Title Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life Author Margaret Elizabeth Leigh Child-Villiers Countess of Jersey Release Date January 14 2012 eBook 38569 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FIFTY-ONE YEARS OF VICTORIAN LIFE E-text prepared by the Online Distributed Proofreading Team http from page images generously made available by Internet Archive http Note Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See or http files 38569 38569-h or http files 38569 Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life by 2 Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See http details fiftyoneyearsofv00jersrich FIFTY-ONE YEARS OF VICTORIAN LIFE All Rights Reserved Illustration Margaret Countess of Jersey FIFTY-ONE YEARS OF VICTORIAN LIFE by THE DOWAGER COUNTESS OF JERSEY London John Murray Albemarle Street W. 1922 DEDICATED TO MY CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN Printed in Great Britain by Hazell Watson Viney Ld. London and Aylesbury. What is this child of man that can conquer Time and that is braver than Love Even Memory. LORD DUNSANY. Though a Sorrow s Crown of Sorrow Be remembering happier things Present joy will shine the brighter If our morn a radiance flings. We perchance may thwart the future If we will not look before And upon a past which pains us We may fasten Memory s door. But we will not cannot .

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