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autobiography would not be unentertaining, but I will take special care not to favour the public with it’ (Dowden, p. 135). We do know, however, from casual references, that she had friends or relatives living in London with whom she spent some time periodically, but she was never particularly drawn to the metropolis on her own account. Her father died when she was 14, and most of the next 16 years -her young womanhood, in effect -was spent at home in the company of her mother, who, like her own mother before her, was a born storyteller. In January 1817 however, her mother died unexpectedly after a brief illness, and Caroline was left alone with only her old nurse for com pany. A later poem recalling the happy period before the death of her mother gives a glimpse of her feeling:
DOI link for autobiography would not be unentertaining, but I will take special care not to favour the public with it’ (Dowden, p. 135). We do know, however, from casual references, that she had friends or relatives living in London with whom she spent some time periodically, but she was never particularly drawn to the metropolis on her own account. Her father died when she was 14, and most of the next 16 years -her young womanhood, in effect -was spent at home in the company of her mother, who, like her own mother before her, was a born storyteller. In January 1817 however, her mother died unexpectedly after a brief illness, and Caroline was left alone with only her old nurse for com pany. A later poem recalling the happy period before the death of her mother gives a glimpse of her feeling:
autobiography would not be unentertaining, but I will take special care not to favour the public with it’ (Dowden, p. 135). We do know, however, from casual references, that she had friends or relatives living in London with whom she spent some time periodically, but she was never particularly drawn to the metropolis on her own account. Her father died when she was 14, and most of the next 16 years -her young womanhood, in effect -was spent at home in the company of her mother, who, like her own mother before her, was a born storyteller. In January 1817 however, her mother died unexpectedly after a brief illness, and Caroline was left alone with only her old nurse for com pany. A later poem recalling the happy period before the death of her mother gives a glimpse of her feeling:
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