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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Mrs. Hungerford, by Helen C. Black
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+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
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+Title: Mrs. Hungerford
+       Notable Women Authors of the Day
+
+Author: Helen C. Black
+
+Release Date: December 25, 2008 [EBook #27620]
+
+Language: English
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MRS. HUNGERFORD ***
+
+
+
+
+Produced by Daniel Fromont
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+[Transcriber's note: Helen C. BLACK, article "Mrs. Hungerford"
+in _Notable women authors of the day_ (1893) 1906 edition]
+
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+
+
+NOTABLE
+
+WOMEN AUTHORS
+
+OF THE DAY, By
+
+HELEN C. BLACK
+
+
+
+_WITH PORTRAITS_
+
+
+
+LONDON: MACLAREN AND COMPANY
+
+WAITHMAN STREET, PILGRIM STREET, E.C.
+
+1906
+
+
+
+CONTENTS
+
+
+
+(...)
+
+
+
+_MRS. HUNGERFORD_
+
+
+
+(...)
+
+
+
+It is well worth encountering the perils of the sea, even in the middle
+of winter, and in the teeth of a north-east wind, if only to experience
+the absolute comfort and ease with which, in these space-annihilating
+days, the once-dreaded journey from England to the Emerald Isle can be
+made. You have resolved to accept a hospitable invitation from Mrs.
+Hungerford, the well-known author of _Molly Bawn_, etc., to visit her
+at her lovely house, St. Brenda's, Bandon, co. Cork, where a 'hearty
+Irish welcome' is promised, and though circumstances prevent your
+availing yourself of the 'month's holiday' so kindly offered, and limit
+an absence from home to but four days, it is delightful to find that,
+travelling by the best of all possible routes--the Irish Mail--it
+is to be accomplished easily and without any fatiguing haste.
+
+Having given due notice of your intentions, you arrive at Euston just
+in time for the 7.15 a.m. express, and find that by the kindness of the
+station-master a compartment is reserved, and every arrangement,
+including an excellent meal, is made for your comfort. The carriages
+are lighted by electricity, and run so smoothly that it is possible to
+get a couple of hours' good sleep, which the very early start has made
+so desirable. On reaching Holyhead at 1.30 p.m. to the minute, you are
+met by the courteous and attentive marine superintendant Captain Cay,
+R.N., who takes you straight on board the _Ireland_, the newest
+addition to the fleet of fine ships, owned by the City of Dublin Steam
+Packet Company. She is a magnificent vessel, 380 feet long, 38 feet in
+beam, 2,589 tons, and 6,000 horse-power; her fine, broad bridge,
+handsome deck-houses, and brass work glisten in the bright sunlight.
+She carries electric light; and the many airy private cabins indicate
+that, though built for speed, the comfort of her passengers has been a
+matter of much consideration. She is well captained, well officered,
+well manned, and well navigated. The good-looking, weather-beaten
+Captain Kendall is indeed the commodore of the company, and has made
+the passage for nearly thirty years. There is an unusually large number
+of passengers to-day, for it is the first week of the accelerated
+speed, and it is amusing to notice the rapidity with which the mails
+are shipped, on men's backs, which plan is found quicker than any
+appliance. Captain Cay remarks that it is no uncommon thing to ship
+seven hundred sacks on foreign mail days; he says, too, that never
+since these vessels were started has there been a single accident to
+life or limb. But the last bag is on board, steam is up, and away goes
+the ship past the South Stack lighthouse, built on an island under
+precipitous cliffs, from which a gun is fired when foggy, and in about
+an hour the Irish coast becomes visible, Howth and Bray Head. The sea
+gets pretty rough, but luckily does not interfere with your excellent
+appetite for the first-class refreshments supplied. The swift-revolving
+paddles churn the big waves into a thick foam as the good ship
+_Ireland_ ploughs her way through at the rate of twenty knots an hour,
+'making good weather of it', and actually accomplishes the voyage in
+three hours and fifteen minutes--one of the shortest runs on record.
+The punctuality with which these mail packets make the passage in all
+weathers is indeed truly wonderful--a fact which is experienced a few
+days later on the return journey. Kingstown is reached at 6.10 p.m.
+(Irish time), where the mail train is waiting to convey passengers by
+the new loop line that runs in a curve right through 'dear dirty
+Dublin', as it is popularly called, to Kingsbridge, and so on to Cork,
+where you put up for the night at the Imperial Hotel.
+
+Another bright sunshiny morning opens, and shows old Cork at her best.
+Cork! the old city of Father Prout's poem, 'The Bells of Shandon',
+which begins thus: With deep affection and recollection
+
+  I often think of Shandon bells,
+  Whose sounds so wild would in days of childhood
+  Fling round my cradle their magic spells,
+  On this I ponder where'er I wander,
+  And thus grow fonder, sweet Cork, of thee;
+  With the bells of Shandon
+  That sound so grand on, etc. etc.
+
+The river Lee runs through the handsome little city, and has often been
+favourably compared with the Rhine. But Bandon must be reached, which
+is easily managed in an hour by rail, and there you are met by your
+host with a neat dog-cart, and good grey mare; being in light marching
+order, your kit is quickly stowed away by a smart-looking groom, and
+soon you find yourself tearing along at a spanking pace through the
+'most Protestant' town of Bandon, where Mr. Hungerford pulls up for a
+moment to point out the spot where once the old gates stood, whereon
+was written the legend, 'Let no Papist enter here'. Years after, a
+priest in the dead of night added to it. He wrote:
+
+Whoever wrote this, wrote it _well_
+
+The same is written on the gates of _Hell_.
+
+Then up the hill past Ballymoden Church, in through the gates of Castle
+Bernard, past Lord Bandon's beautiful old castle covered with exquisite
+ivy, out through a second gate, over the railway, a drive of twenty
+minutes in all, and so up to the gates of St. Brenda's. A private road
+of about half a mile long, hedged on either side by privet and hawthorn
+and golden furze, leads to the avenue proper, the entrance gate which
+is flanked by two handsome deodars. It takes a few minutes more to
+arrive at a large, square, ivy-clad house, and ere there is time to
+take in an idea of its gardens and surroundings, the great hall door is
+flung open, a little form trips down the stone steps, and almost before
+the horse has come to a standstill, Mrs. Hungerford gives you indeed
+the 'hearty Irish welcome' she promised.
+
+It is now about four o'clock, and the day is growing dark. Your hostess
+draws you in hastily out of the cold, into a spacious hall lighted by a
+hanging Eastern lamp, and by two other lamps let into the wide circular
+staircase at the lower end of it. The drawing-room door is open, and a
+stream of ruddy light from half-a-dozen crimson shaded lamps, rushing
+out, seems to welcome you too. It is a large, handsome room, very
+lofty, and charmingly furnished, with a Persian carpet, tiny tables,
+low lounging chairs, innumerable knick-knacks of all kinds, ferns,
+winter flowers of every sort, screens and palms. A great fire of pine-logs
+is roaring up the chimney. The piano is draped with Bokhara plush,
+and everywhere the latest magazines, novels, and papers are scattered.
+
+Mrs. Hungerford is a very tiny woman, but slight and well-proportioned.
+Her large hazel eyes, sparkling with fun and merriment, are shaded by
+thick, curly lashes. She has a small, determined mouth, and the chin
+slightly upturned, gives a _piquante_ expression to the intelligent
+face--so bright and vivacious. Her hair is of a fair-brown colour, a
+little lighter than her eyelashes, and is piled up high on the top of
+her head, breaking away into natural curls over her brow. She is clad
+in an exquisite tea-gown of dark blue plush, with a soft, hanging,
+loose front of a lighter shade of silk. Some old lace ruffles finish
+off the wrists and throat, and she wears a pair of little high-heeled
+_Louis quinze_ shoes, which display her small and pretty feet. She
+looks the embodiment of good temper, merry wit, and _espièglerie_.
+
+It is difficult to realize that she is the mother of the six children
+who are grouped in the background. One lovely little fairy, 'Vera',
+ages three and a half, runs clinging up to her skirts, and peeps out
+shyly. Her delicate colouring suggests a bit of dainty Dresden china.
+Later on, you discover that this is actually the pet name by which she
+is known, being indeed quite famous here as a small beauty. 'Master
+Tom', a splendid roly-poly fellow, aged sixteen months is playing with
+a heap of toys on the rug near the fire and is carefully watched over
+by a young brother of five. The three other girls are charming little
+maidens. The eldest, though but in her early teens, is intellectual and
+studious; the second has a decided talent for painting, whilst the
+third, says her mother, laughing, 'is a consummate idler, but witty and
+clever'.
+
+By and bye your hostess takes you into what she calls her 'den', for a
+long, undisturbed chat, and this room also bears the stamp of her taste
+and love of study. A big log fire burns merrily here, too, in the huge
+grate, and lights up a splendid old oak cabinet, reaching from floor to
+ceiling, which, with four more bookcases, seems literally crammed with
+dictionaries, books of reference, novels, and other light literature;
+but the picturesque is not wanting, and there are plenty of other
+decorations, such as paintings, flowers, and valuable old china to be
+seen. Here the clever little author passes three hours every morning.
+She is, as usual, over-full of work, sells as fast as she can write,
+and has at the present time more commissions than she can get through
+during the next few years. Everything is very orderly--each big or
+little bundle of MSS. is neatly tied together and duly labelled. She
+opens one drawer of a great knee-hole writing table, which discloses
+hundreds of half sheets of paper. 'Yes', she says, with a laugh; 'I
+scribble my notes on these: they are the backs of my friends' letters;
+how astonished many of them would be if they knew that the last half
+sheet they write me becomes on the spot a medium for the latest
+full-blown accounts of a murder, or a laugh, or a swindle, perhaps, more
+frequently, a flirtation! I am a bad sleeper', she adds, 'I think my
+brain is too active, for I always plan out my best scenes at night, and
+write them out in the morning without any trouble'. She finds, too,
+that driving has a curious effect upon her; the action of the air seems
+to stimulate her. She dislikes talking, or being talked to, when
+driving, but loves to think, and to watch the lovely variations of the
+world around her, and often comes home filled with fresh ideas, scenes,
+and conversations, which she scribbles down without even waiting to
+throw off her furs. Asking her how she goes to work about her plot, she
+answers with a reproachful little laugh--'That is unkind! You know I
+never _have_ a plot really, not the _bona fide_ plot one looks for in a
+novel. An idea comes to me, or I to it', she says, airily, 'a scene--a
+situation--a young man, a young woman, and on that mental hint I
+begin to build', but the question naturally arises, she must make a
+beginning? 'Indeed, no', she replies; 'it has frequently happened to me
+that I have written the last chapter first, and so, as it were, worked
+backwards'.
+
+'Phyllis' was the young author's first work. It was written before she
+was nineteen, and was read by Mr. James Payn, who accepted it for
+Messrs. Smith Elder & Co.
+
+Mrs. Hungerford is the daughter of the late Rev. Canon Hamilton, rector
+and vicar choral of St. Faughnan's cathedral in Ross Carberry, co.
+Cork, one of the oldest churches in Ireland. Her grandfather was John
+Hamilton, of Vesington, Dunboyne, a property thirteen miles out of
+Dublin. The family is very old, very distinguished, and came over from
+Scotland to Ireland in the reign of James I.
+
+Most of her family are in the army; but of literary talent, she
+remarks, it has but little to boast. Her principal works are _Phyllis_,
+_Molly Bawn_, _Mrs. Geoffrey_, _Portia_, _Rossmoyne_, _Undercurrents_,
+_A Life's Remorse_, _A Born Coquette_, _A Conquering Heroine_. She has
+written up to this time thirty-two novels, besides uncountable articles
+for home and American papers. In the latter country she enjoys an
+enormous popularity, and everything she writes is rapidly printed off.
+First sheets of the novels in hand are bought from her for American
+publications, months before there is any chance of their being
+completed. In Australia, too, her books are eagerly looked for, whilst
+every story she has ever written can be found in the Tauchnitz series.
+
+She began to write when very young, at school taking always the prize
+in composition. As a mere child she could always keep other children
+spellbound whilst telling them fairy stories of her own invention. 'I
+remember', she says, turning round with a laugh, 'when I was about ten
+years old, writing a ghost story which so frightened myself, that when
+I went to bed that night, I couldn't sleep till I had tucked my head
+under the bedclothes'. 'This', she adds, 'I have always considered my
+_chef d'oeuvre_, as I don't believe I have ever succeeded in
+frightening anyone ever since'. At eighteen she gave herself up
+seriously, or rather, gaily, to literary work. All her books teem with
+wit and humor. One of her last creations, the delightful old butler,
+Murphy, in _A Born Coquette_, is equal to anything ever written by her
+compatriot, Charles Lever. Not that she has devoted herself entirely to
+mirth-moving situations. The delicacy of her love scenes, the lightness
+of touch that distinguishes her numerous flirtations can only be
+equalled by the pathos she has thrown into her work every now and then,
+as if to temper her brightness with a little shade. Her descriptions of
+scenery are specially vivid and delightful, and very often full of
+poetry. She is never didactic or goody-goody, neither does she revel in
+risky situations, nor give the world stories which, to quote the
+well-known saying of a popular playwright, 'no nice girl would allow her
+mother to read'.
+
+Mrs. Hungerford married first when very young, but her husband died in
+less than six years, leaving her with three little girls. In 1883 she
+married Mr. Henry Hungerford. He also is Irish, and his father's place,
+Cahirmore, of about eleven thousand acres, lies nearly twenty miles to
+the west of Bandon. 'It may interest you', she says, 'to hear that my
+husband was at the same school as Mr. Rider Haggard. I remember when we
+were all much younger than we are now, the two boys came over for their
+holidays to Cahirmore, and one day in my old home "Milleen" we all went
+down to the kitchen to cast bullets. We little thought then that the
+quiet, shy schoolboy, was destined to be the author of "King Solomon's
+Mines"'.
+
+Nothing less than a genius is Mrs. Hungerford at gardening. Her dress
+protected by a pretty holland apron, her hands encased in brown leather
+gloves, she digs and delves. Followed by many children, each armed with
+one of 'mother's own' implements--for she has her own little spade
+and hoe, and rake, and trowel, and fork--she plants her own seeds,
+and pricks her own seedlings, prunes, grafts, and watches with the
+deepest eagerness to see them grow. In springtime, her interest is
+alike divided between the opening buds of her daffodils, and the
+breaking of the eggs of the first little chickens, for she has a fine
+poultry yard too, and is very successful in her management of it. She
+is full of vitality, and is the pivot on which every member of the
+house turns. Blessed with an adoring husband, and healthy, handsome,
+obedient children, who come to her for everything and tell her
+anything, her life seems idyllic.
+
+'Now and then', she remarks laughing, 'I really have great difficulty
+in securing two quiet hours for my work'; but everything is done in
+such method and order, the writing included, there is little wonder
+that so much is got through. It is a full, happy, complete life. 'I
+think', she adds, 'my one great dread and anxiety is a review. I never
+yet have got over my terror of it, and as each one arrives, I tremble
+and quake afresh ere reading'.
+
+_April's Lady_ is one of the author's lately published works. It is in
+the three volumes, and ran previously as a serial in _Belgravia_. _Lady
+Patty_, a society sketch drawn from life, has a most favourable
+reception from the critics and public alike, but in her last novel,
+very cleverly entitled _Nor Wife Nor Maid_, Mrs. Hungerford is to be
+seen, or rather read, at her best. This charming book, so full of
+pathos, so replete with tenderness, ran into a second edition in about
+ten days. In it the author has taken somewhat of a departure from her
+usual lively style. Here she has indeed given 'sorrow words'. The third
+volume is so especially powerful and dramatic, that it keeps the
+attention chained. The description indeed of poor Mary's grief and
+despair are hardly to be outdone. The plot contains a delicate
+situation, most delicately worked out. Not a word or suspicion of a
+word jars upon the reader. It is not however all gloom. There is in it
+a second pair of lovers who help to lift the clouds, and bring a smile
+to the lips of the reader.
+
+Mrs. Hungerford does not often leave her pretty Irish home. What with
+her incessant literary work, her manifold domestic occupations, and the
+cares of her large family, she can seldom be induced to quit what she
+calls, 'an out and out country life', even to pay visits to her English
+friends. Mrs. Hungerford unhesitatingly declares that everything in the
+house seems wrong, and there is a howl of dismay from the children when
+the presiding genius even suggests a few days' leave of absence. Last
+year, however, she determined to go over London at the pressing
+invitation of a friend, in order to make the acquaintance of some of
+her distinguished brothers and sisters of the pen, and she speaks of
+how thoroughly she enjoyed that visit, with an eager delight. 'Everyone
+was so kind', she says, 'so flattering, far, far too flattering. They
+all seemed to have some pretty thing to say to me. I have felt a little
+spoilt ever since. However, I am going to try what a little more
+flattery will do for me, so Mr. Hungerford and I hope to accept, next
+Spring, a second invitation from the same friend, who wants us to go to
+a large ball she is going to give some time in May for some charitable
+institution--a Cottage Hospital I believe; but come', she adds,
+suddenly springing up, 'we have spent quite too much time over my
+stupid self. Come back to the drawing-room and the chicks, I am sure
+they must be wondering where we are, and the tea and the cakes are
+growing cold'.
+
+At this moment the door opens, and her husband, gun in hand, with muddy
+boots and gaiters, nods to you from the threshold; he says he dare not
+enter the 'den' in this state, and hurries up to change before joining
+the tea table. 'He is a great athlete', says his wife, 'good at
+cricket, football, and hockey, and equally fond of shooting, fishing,
+and riding'. That he is a capital whip, you have already found out.
+
+In the morning you see from the library window a flower garden and
+shrubbery, with rose trees galore, and after breakfast a stroll round
+the place is proposed. A brisk walk down the avenue first, and then
+back to the beech trees standing on the lawn, which slopes away from
+the house down to a river running at the bottom of a deep valley, up
+the long gravelled walk by the hall door, and you turn into a handsome
+walled kitchen garden, where fruit trees abound--apple and pear trees
+laden with fruit, a quarter of an acre of strawberry beds, and currant
+and raspberry bushes in plenty.
+
+But time and tide, trains and steamers, wait to for no man, or woman
+either. A few hours later you regretfully bid adieu to the charming
+little author, and watch her until the bend of the road hides her from
+your sight. Mr. Hungerford sees you through the first stage of the
+journey, which is all accomplished satisfactorily, and you reach home
+to find that whilst you have been luxuriating in fresh sea and country
+air, London has been wrapped in four days of gloom and darkness."
+
+
+
+
+Complement:
+
+
+
+Helen C. BLACK, _In memoriam The late Mrs. Hungerford_ from _The
+Englishwoman_ April 1897 pp. 102-105
+
+"The sad news of the death of the popular and well-known author, Mrs.
+Hungerford, has caused a universal thrill of sorrow, no less to her
+many friends than to the large section of the reading public, in every
+part of the globe where the English tongue is spoken, who delight in
+her simple but bright and witty love-stories, so full of pathos, so
+replete with tenderness and human interest. The melancholy event took
+place on Sunday morning, the 24th January, after many weeks' illness
+from typhoid fever, and has deprived what the beloved little writer was
+wont to call 'a perfectly happy and idyllic Irish home' of its chiefest
+treasure.
+
+The late Mrs. Hungerford came before the public at the early age of
+eighteen, when she made an immediate success with her first novel,
+_Phyllis_, which was read and accepted by Mr. James Payn, then reader
+for Messrs. Smith Elder & Co. Her natural bent towards literature had,
+however, manifested itself in childhood, when she took at school all
+the prizes in composition, and used to keep her playfellows enthralled
+by the stories and fairy-tales she invented and wrote for them. On
+leaving school she at once decided to adopt the pen as a profession, in
+which she has had so successful a career. The tone of _Phyllis_ was so
+fresh and ingenuous that it soon found favour with the public, and was
+shortly followed by the far-famed _Molly Bawn_--a title which was
+peculiarly associated with her, inasmuch as it was the name by which
+many friends called her--and a long series, numbering over forty
+novels, besides countless short stories for home and American
+magazines, where, together with Australia and India, she enjoyed a vast
+popularity. In America everything she wrote was rapidly printed off,
+first sheets of novels in hand being bought from her for Transatlantic
+publications long before there was any chance of their being completed,
+while every story she ever wrote can be found in the Tauchnitz series.
+Among her earlier works are _Portia_, _Mrs. Geoffrey_, _Airy Fairy
+Lilian_, _Rossmoyne_, etc., which were followed as years rolled on, by
+_Undercurrents_, _A Life's Remorse_, _A Born Coquette_--where her
+creation of the delightful old butler, Murphy, is equal to anything
+ever written by her compatriot Charles Lever--, _Nor Wife, nor Maid_,
+_The Professor's Experiment_, etc. The latest work that she lived to
+see published is a collection of clever, crisp stories, entitled _An
+Anxious Moment_, which, with a strange and pathetic significance,
+terminates with a brief paper called 'How I Write my Novels'. Two
+posthumous works were left completed, bearing the names, respectively,
+of _Lovice_, just issued, and _The Coming of Chloe_, which will shortly
+be brought out.
+
+Thoroughly wholesome in tone, bright and sparkling in style, the
+delicacy of here love-scenes and the lightness of touch that
+distinguishes her character sketches can only be equalled by the
+pathos, which every now and then she has thrown in, as if to temper her
+vivacity with a little shade. Here and there, as in the case of _Nor
+Wife, nor Maid_, she has struck a powerfully dramatic note, while her
+descriptions of scenery are especially vivid and delightful, and very
+often full of poetry.
+
+The late Mrs. Hungerford was the daughter of the late Rev. Canon
+Hamilton, Rector and Vicar Choral of St. Faughman's Cathedral, Ross
+Carberry, co. Cork, one of the oldest churches in Ireland. Her
+grandfather was John Hamilton, of Vesington, Dunboyne, a property
+thirteen miles out of Dublin. The family is very old, very
+distinguished, and came over from Scotland to Ireland in the Reign of
+James I. She was first married when very young, but her husband died
+five and a half years later, leaving her with three little girls. In
+1882, _en secondes noces_, she married Mr. Thomas Henry Hungerford, of
+St. Brenda's, Bandon, co. Cork, whose father's estate Cahirmore, of
+about eleven thousand acres, lies nearly twenty miles to the west of
+Bandon. By this most happy union, she has left three children--two
+sons and a daughter.
+
+Thoroughly domestic in all her tastes, with a love of gardening, and a
+practical knowledge of all the details of country life, which tend to
+make the home so comfortable, her unfailing sweet temper, ready wit and
+_espièglerie_, her powers of sympathy and strong common sense, caused
+her to be the life and center of her large household. Tenderly attached
+to her husband and family, by all of whom she was adored, she used
+often to say, with joy and pride, 'They came to her for everything, and
+told her everything, and it was a union of perfect love, confidence,
+and peace'. In social life she numbered a large circle of friends, to
+whom she was deservedly endeared by her many engaging qualities; she
+possessed, indeed, a magnetism which drew all hearts towards her. But
+seldom could Mrs. Hungerford be induced to leave her picturesque Irish
+home, even to pay visits to her friends in England. Her manifold
+duties, the cares of a large family, and her incessant literary work
+filled up a life that was complete, useful, and congenial, and leaves
+behind an irreparable blank.
+
+A brief description of the well-beloved little author and her pretty
+home will be interesting to those who knew her not, save through her
+works. She was a very tiny woman, but slight and well-proportioned,
+with baby hands and feet. The large hazel eyes, that sparkled with fun
+and merriment, were shaded by thick curly lashes; a small, determined
+mouth and slightly upturned chin gave a piquant expression to the
+intelligent face--so bright and vivacious. Her hair, of a fair brown
+colour, a little lighter than the eyelashes, was worn piled up on the
+top of her head, and broke away into natural curls over a broad and
+intellectual brow.
+
+Driving up the hill, past Ballymoden Church, in through the gates of
+Castle Barnard, Lord Bandon's beautiful old place covered with ivy, out
+through a second gate and over the railway, the gates of St. Brenda are
+reached. A private road, about half a mile long, hedged on either side
+with privet, hawthorn and golden furze, leads to the avenue proper, the
+entrance gate of which is flanked by two handsome deodars. It takes a
+few minutes more to arrive at the large square ivy-clad house an
+grounds, where beech trees stand on the lawn sloping away down to a
+river running at the bottom of a deep valley. The long gravelled walk
+by the hall door turns into a handsome walled kitchen garden, where
+apple and pear trees abound, together with a quarter of an acre of
+strawberry beds, currant, gooseberry, and raspberry bushes in plenty.
+From the library window can be seen the flower garden and shrubbery and
+a large variety of rose trees. Close by is her own special plot where
+she delighted to work with her own little implements, spade, trowel,
+hoe, and rake, planting her seeds, pricking her seedlings, pruning,
+grafting, and watching with deepest eagerness to see them grow. In
+spring-time her interest was alike divided between the opening buds of
+her daffodils and the breaking of the eggs of the first little chickens
+in the fine poultry yard, in the management of which she was so
+successful. But among all these multifarious and healthy outdoor
+occupations in which she delighted, Mrs. Hungerford invariably secured
+three hours daily for her literary pursuits, when everything was done
+with such method and order, the writing included, that there was little
+wonder that she got through so much.
+
+Her own writing-room bears the stamp of her taste and her love of
+study, where the big log-fire burned in the huge grate, and lighted up
+a splendid old oak cabinet that reaches from floor to ceiling, which,
+together with four other bookcases, are literally crammed to
+overflowing, while the picturesque is not wanting, as the many
+paintings, old china, ferns, plants and winter flowers can testify.
+
+On the great knee-hole writing table lies the now silent pen where last
+she used it, with each big or little bundle of MSS. methodically
+labelled, and a long list of engagements for work, extending into
+future years, now, alas! destined to remain unfulfilled!
+
+With so active a brain she was a bad sleeper, and always planned out
+her best schemes during the night, and wrote them out in the morning
+without difficulty. Driving, too, had a curious effect upon her; the
+action of the air seemed to stimulate her, and she disliked talking, or
+being talked to, when driving. She loved to think and to watch the
+lovely variations of the world around her, and would often come home
+filled with fresh ideas, scenes, and conversations, which she used to
+note down without even waiting to throw off her furs. If questioned how
+she went to work about a plot she would reply, with a reproachful
+little laugh, 'I never have a plot really, not the _bona fide_ plot one
+looks for in a novel. An idea comes to me, or I to it--a scene, a
+situation, a young man or a young woman--and on that mental hint I
+begin to build, and it has frequently happened to me that I have
+written the last chapter first, and so, as it were, worked backwards'.
+
+But in whatsoever form the gifted writer composed her novels the result
+was the same, and she will be widely mourned by the many, who in hours
+of sickness, of carking care or sorrow, owed a temporary respite from
+heavy thought, or the laugh that banishes ennui, to her ready pen--grave
+and gay by turns, but in every mood bewitching. During her long
+illness, with its constant relapses, its alternations of now hope, now
+despair, her patience and unselfishness were exhibited to a remarkable
+degree. Ever fearful to give trouble, hopeful and wishing to encourage
+the loved ones around her, she maintained a gentle cheerfulness and
+resignation, and finally passed away so peacefully that her sorrowing
+husband and children scarcely realised the moment when her spirit
+winged its flight to the better land, whence she, being dead, 'yet
+speaketh', for 'to live in hearts we leave behind is not to die'."
+
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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Mrs. Hungerford, by Helen C. Black
+
+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
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+
+
+Title: Mrs. Hungerford
+       Notable Women Authors of the Day
+
+Author: Helen C. Black
+
+Release Date: December 25, 2008 [EBook #27620]
+
+Language: English
+
+Character set encoding: ASCII
+
+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MRS. HUNGERFORD ***
+
+
+
+
+Produced by Daniel Fromont
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+[Transcriber's note: Helen C. BLACK, article "Mrs. Hungerford"
+in _Notable women authors of the day_ (1893) 1906 edition]
+
+
+
+
+
+
+NOTABLE
+
+WOMEN AUTHORS
+
+OF THE DAY, By
+
+HELEN C. BLACK
+
+
+
+_WITH PORTRAITS_
+
+
+
+LONDON: MACLAREN AND COMPANY
+
+WAITHMAN STREET, PILGRIM STREET, E.C.
+
+1906
+
+
+
+CONTENTS
+
+
+
+(...)
+
+
+
+_MRS. HUNGERFORD_
+
+
+
+(...)
+
+
+
+It is well worth encountering the perils of the sea, even in the middle
+of winter, and in the teeth of a north-east wind, if only to experience
+the absolute comfort and ease with which, in these space-annihilating
+days, the once-dreaded journey from England to the Emerald Isle can be
+made. You have resolved to accept a hospitable invitation from Mrs.
+Hungerford, the well-known author of _Molly Bawn_, etc., to visit her
+at her lovely house, St. Brenda's, Bandon, co. Cork, where a 'hearty
+Irish welcome' is promised, and though circumstances prevent your
+availing yourself of the 'month's holiday' so kindly offered, and limit
+an absence from home to but four days, it is delightful to find that,
+travelling by the best of all possible routes--the Irish Mail--it
+is to be accomplished easily and without any fatiguing haste.
+
+Having given due notice of your intentions, you arrive at Euston just
+in time for the 7.15 a.m. express, and find that by the kindness of the
+station-master a compartment is reserved, and every arrangement,
+including an excellent meal, is made for your comfort. The carriages
+are lighted by electricity, and run so smoothly that it is possible to
+get a couple of hours' good sleep, which the very early start has made
+so desirable. On reaching Holyhead at 1.30 p.m. to the minute, you are
+met by the courteous and attentive marine superintendant Captain Cay,
+R.N., who takes you straight on board the _Ireland_, the newest
+addition to the fleet of fine ships, owned by the City of Dublin Steam
+Packet Company. She is a magnificent vessel, 380 feet long, 38 feet in
+beam, 2,589 tons, and 6,000 horse-power; her fine, broad bridge,
+handsome deck-houses, and brass work glisten in the bright sunlight.
+She carries electric light; and the many airy private cabins indicate
+that, though built for speed, the comfort of her passengers has been a
+matter of much consideration. She is well captained, well officered,
+well manned, and well navigated. The good-looking, weather-beaten
+Captain Kendall is indeed the commodore of the company, and has made
+the passage for nearly thirty years. There is an unusually large number
+of passengers to-day, for it is the first week of the accelerated
+speed, and it is amusing to notice the rapidity with which the mails
+are shipped, on men's backs, which plan is found quicker than any
+appliance. Captain Cay remarks that it is no uncommon thing to ship
+seven hundred sacks on foreign mail days; he says, too, that never
+since these vessels were started has there been a single accident to
+life or limb. But the last bag is on board, steam is up, and away goes
+the ship past the South Stack lighthouse, built on an island under
+precipitous cliffs, from which a gun is fired when foggy, and in about
+an hour the Irish coast becomes visible, Howth and Bray Head. The sea
+gets pretty rough, but luckily does not interfere with your excellent
+appetite for the first-class refreshments supplied. The swift-revolving
+paddles churn the big waves into a thick foam as the good ship
+_Ireland_ ploughs her way through at the rate of twenty knots an hour,
+'making good weather of it', and actually accomplishes the voyage in
+three hours and fifteen minutes--one of the shortest runs on record.
+The punctuality with which these mail packets make the passage in all
+weathers is indeed truly wonderful--a fact which is experienced a few
+days later on the return journey. Kingstown is reached at 6.10 p.m.
+(Irish time), where the mail train is waiting to convey passengers by
+the new loop line that runs in a curve right through 'dear dirty
+Dublin', as it is popularly called, to Kingsbridge, and so on to Cork,
+where you put up for the night at the Imperial Hotel.
+
+Another bright sunshiny morning opens, and shows old Cork at her best.
+Cork! the old city of Father Prout's poem, 'The Bells of Shandon',
+which begins thus: With deep affection and recollection
+
+  I often think of Shandon bells,
+  Whose sounds so wild would in days of childhood
+  Fling round my cradle their magic spells,
+  On this I ponder where'er I wander,
+  And thus grow fonder, sweet Cork, of thee;
+  With the bells of Shandon
+  That sound so grand on, etc. etc.
+
+The river Lee runs through the handsome little city, and has often been
+favourably compared with the Rhine. But Bandon must be reached, which
+is easily managed in an hour by rail, and there you are met by your
+host with a neat dog-cart, and good grey mare; being in light marching
+order, your kit is quickly stowed away by a smart-looking groom, and
+soon you find yourself tearing along at a spanking pace through the
+'most Protestant' town of Bandon, where Mr. Hungerford pulls up for a
+moment to point out the spot where once the old gates stood, whereon
+was written the legend, 'Let no Papist enter here'. Years after, a
+priest in the dead of night added to it. He wrote:
+
+Whoever wrote this, wrote it _well_
+
+The same is written on the gates of _Hell_.
+
+Then up the hill past Ballymoden Church, in through the gates of Castle
+Bernard, past Lord Bandon's beautiful old castle covered with exquisite
+ivy, out through a second gate, over the railway, a drive of twenty
+minutes in all, and so up to the gates of St. Brenda's. A private road
+of about half a mile long, hedged on either side by privet and hawthorn
+and golden furze, leads to the avenue proper, the entrance gate which
+is flanked by two handsome deodars. It takes a few minutes more to
+arrive at a large, square, ivy-clad house, and ere there is time to
+take in an idea of its gardens and surroundings, the great hall door is
+flung open, a little form trips down the stone steps, and almost before
+the horse has come to a standstill, Mrs. Hungerford gives you indeed
+the 'hearty Irish welcome' she promised.
+
+It is now about four o'clock, and the day is growing dark. Your hostess
+draws you in hastily out of the cold, into a spacious hall lighted by a
+hanging Eastern lamp, and by two other lamps let into the wide circular
+staircase at the lower end of it. The drawing-room door is open, and a
+stream of ruddy light from half-a-dozen crimson shaded lamps, rushing
+out, seems to welcome you too. It is a large, handsome room, very
+lofty, and charmingly furnished, with a Persian carpet, tiny tables,
+low lounging chairs, innumerable knick-knacks of all kinds, ferns,
+winter flowers of every sort, screens and palms. A great fire of pine-logs
+is roaring up the chimney. The piano is draped with Bokhara plush,
+and everywhere the latest magazines, novels, and papers are scattered.
+
+Mrs. Hungerford is a very tiny woman, but slight and well-proportioned.
+Her large hazel eyes, sparkling with fun and merriment, are shaded by
+thick, curly lashes. She has a small, determined mouth, and the chin
+slightly upturned, gives a _piquante_ expression to the intelligent
+face--so bright and vivacious. Her hair is of a fair-brown colour, a
+little lighter than her eyelashes, and is piled up high on the top of
+her head, breaking away into natural curls over her brow. She is clad
+in an exquisite tea-gown of dark blue plush, with a soft, hanging,
+loose front of a lighter shade of silk. Some old lace ruffles finish
+off the wrists and throat, and she wears a pair of little high-heeled
+_Louis quinze_ shoes, which display her small and pretty feet. She
+looks the embodiment of good temper, merry wit, and _espieglerie_.
+
+It is difficult to realize that she is the mother of the six children
+who are grouped in the background. One lovely little fairy, 'Vera',
+ages three and a half, runs clinging up to her skirts, and peeps out
+shyly. Her delicate colouring suggests a bit of dainty Dresden china.
+Later on, you discover that this is actually the pet name by which she
+is known, being indeed quite famous here as a small beauty. 'Master
+Tom', a splendid roly-poly fellow, aged sixteen months is playing with
+a heap of toys on the rug near the fire and is carefully watched over
+by a young brother of five. The three other girls are charming little
+maidens. The eldest, though but in her early teens, is intellectual and
+studious; the second has a decided talent for painting, whilst the
+third, says her mother, laughing, 'is a consummate idler, but witty and
+clever'.
+
+By and bye your hostess takes you into what she calls her 'den', for a
+long, undisturbed chat, and this room also bears the stamp of her taste
+and love of study. A big log fire burns merrily here, too, in the huge
+grate, and lights up a splendid old oak cabinet, reaching from floor to
+ceiling, which, with four more bookcases, seems literally crammed with
+dictionaries, books of reference, novels, and other light literature;
+but the picturesque is not wanting, and there are plenty of other
+decorations, such as paintings, flowers, and valuable old china to be
+seen. Here the clever little author passes three hours every morning.
+She is, as usual, over-full of work, sells as fast as she can write,
+and has at the present time more commissions than she can get through
+during the next few years. Everything is very orderly--each big or
+little bundle of MSS. is neatly tied together and duly labelled. She
+opens one drawer of a great knee-hole writing table, which discloses
+hundreds of half sheets of paper. 'Yes', she says, with a laugh; 'I
+scribble my notes on these: they are the backs of my friends' letters;
+how astonished many of them would be if they knew that the last half
+sheet they write me becomes on the spot a medium for the latest
+full-blown accounts of a murder, or a laugh, or a swindle, perhaps, more
+frequently, a flirtation! I am a bad sleeper', she adds, 'I think my
+brain is too active, for I always plan out my best scenes at night, and
+write them out in the morning without any trouble'. She finds, too,
+that driving has a curious effect upon her; the action of the air seems
+to stimulate her. She dislikes talking, or being talked to, when
+driving, but loves to think, and to watch the lovely variations of the
+world around her, and often comes home filled with fresh ideas, scenes,
+and conversations, which she scribbles down without even waiting to
+throw off her furs. Asking her how she goes to work about her plot, she
+answers with a reproachful little laugh--'That is unkind! You know I
+never _have_ a plot really, not the _bona fide_ plot one looks for in a
+novel. An idea comes to me, or I to it', she says, airily, 'a scene--a
+situation--a young man, a young woman, and on that mental hint I
+begin to build', but the question naturally arises, she must make a
+beginning? 'Indeed, no', she replies; 'it has frequently happened to me
+that I have written the last chapter first, and so, as it were, worked
+backwards'.
+
+'Phyllis' was the young author's first work. It was written before she
+was nineteen, and was read by Mr. James Payn, who accepted it for
+Messrs. Smith Elder & Co.
+
+Mrs. Hungerford is the daughter of the late Rev. Canon Hamilton, rector
+and vicar choral of St. Faughnan's cathedral in Ross Carberry, co.
+Cork, one of the oldest churches in Ireland. Her grandfather was John
+Hamilton, of Vesington, Dunboyne, a property thirteen miles out of
+Dublin. The family is very old, very distinguished, and came over from
+Scotland to Ireland in the reign of James I.
+
+Most of her family are in the army; but of literary talent, she
+remarks, it has but little to boast. Her principal works are _Phyllis_,
+_Molly Bawn_, _Mrs. Geoffrey_, _Portia_, _Rossmoyne_, _Undercurrents_,
+_A Life's Remorse_, _A Born Coquette_, _A Conquering Heroine_. She has
+written up to this time thirty-two novels, besides uncountable articles
+for home and American papers. In the latter country she enjoys an
+enormous popularity, and everything she writes is rapidly printed off.
+First sheets of the novels in hand are bought from her for American
+publications, months before there is any chance of their being
+completed. In Australia, too, her books are eagerly looked for, whilst
+every story she has ever written can be found in the Tauchnitz series.
+
+She began to write when very young, at school taking always the prize
+in composition. As a mere child she could always keep other children
+spellbound whilst telling them fairy stories of her own invention. 'I
+remember', she says, turning round with a laugh, 'when I was about ten
+years old, writing a ghost story which so frightened myself, that when
+I went to bed that night, I couldn't sleep till I had tucked my head
+under the bedclothes'. 'This', she adds, 'I have always considered my
+_chef d'oeuvre_, as I don't believe I have ever succeeded in
+frightening anyone ever since'. At eighteen she gave herself up
+seriously, or rather, gaily, to literary work. All her books teem with
+wit and humor. One of her last creations, the delightful old butler,
+Murphy, in _A Born Coquette_, is equal to anything ever written by her
+compatriot, Charles Lever. Not that she has devoted herself entirely to
+mirth-moving situations. The delicacy of her love scenes, the lightness
+of touch that distinguishes her numerous flirtations can only be
+equalled by the pathos she has thrown into her work every now and then,
+as if to temper her brightness with a little shade. Her descriptions of
+scenery are specially vivid and delightful, and very often full of
+poetry. She is never didactic or goody-goody, neither does she revel in
+risky situations, nor give the world stories which, to quote the
+well-known saying of a popular playwright, 'no nice girl would allow her
+mother to read'.
+
+Mrs. Hungerford married first when very young, but her husband died in
+less than six years, leaving her with three little girls. In 1883 she
+married Mr. Henry Hungerford. He also is Irish, and his father's place,
+Cahirmore, of about eleven thousand acres, lies nearly twenty miles to
+the west of Bandon. 'It may interest you', she says, 'to hear that my
+husband was at the same school as Mr. Rider Haggard. I remember when we
+were all much younger than we are now, the two boys came over for their
+holidays to Cahirmore, and one day in my old home "Milleen" we all went
+down to the kitchen to cast bullets. We little thought then that the
+quiet, shy schoolboy, was destined to be the author of "King Solomon's
+Mines"'.
+
+Nothing less than a genius is Mrs. Hungerford at gardening. Her dress
+protected by a pretty holland apron, her hands encased in brown leather
+gloves, she digs and delves. Followed by many children, each armed with
+one of 'mother's own' implements--for she has her own little spade
+and hoe, and rake, and trowel, and fork--she plants her own seeds,
+and pricks her own seedlings, prunes, grafts, and watches with the
+deepest eagerness to see them grow. In springtime, her interest is
+alike divided between the opening buds of her daffodils, and the
+breaking of the eggs of the first little chickens, for she has a fine
+poultry yard too, and is very successful in her management of it. She
+is full of vitality, and is the pivot on which every member of the
+house turns. Blessed with an adoring husband, and healthy, handsome,
+obedient children, who come to her for everything and tell her
+anything, her life seems idyllic.
+
+'Now and then', she remarks laughing, 'I really have great difficulty
+in securing two quiet hours for my work'; but everything is done in
+such method and order, the writing included, there is little wonder
+that so much is got through. It is a full, happy, complete life. 'I
+think', she adds, 'my one great dread and anxiety is a review. I never
+yet have got over my terror of it, and as each one arrives, I tremble
+and quake afresh ere reading'.
+
+_April's Lady_ is one of the author's lately published works. It is in
+the three volumes, and ran previously as a serial in _Belgravia_. _Lady
+Patty_, a society sketch drawn from life, has a most favourable
+reception from the critics and public alike, but in her last novel,
+very cleverly entitled _Nor Wife Nor Maid_, Mrs. Hungerford is to be
+seen, or rather read, at her best. This charming book, so full of
+pathos, so replete with tenderness, ran into a second edition in about
+ten days. In it the author has taken somewhat of a departure from her
+usual lively style. Here she has indeed given 'sorrow words'. The third
+volume is so especially powerful and dramatic, that it keeps the
+attention chained. The description indeed of poor Mary's grief and
+despair are hardly to be outdone. The plot contains a delicate
+situation, most delicately worked out. Not a word or suspicion of a
+word jars upon the reader. It is not however all gloom. There is in it
+a second pair of lovers who help to lift the clouds, and bring a smile
+to the lips of the reader.
+
+Mrs. Hungerford does not often leave her pretty Irish home. What with
+her incessant literary work, her manifold domestic occupations, and the
+cares of her large family, she can seldom be induced to quit what she
+calls, 'an out and out country life', even to pay visits to her English
+friends. Mrs. Hungerford unhesitatingly declares that everything in the
+house seems wrong, and there is a howl of dismay from the children when
+the presiding genius even suggests a few days' leave of absence. Last
+year, however, she determined to go over London at the pressing
+invitation of a friend, in order to make the acquaintance of some of
+her distinguished brothers and sisters of the pen, and she speaks of
+how thoroughly she enjoyed that visit, with an eager delight. 'Everyone
+was so kind', she says, 'so flattering, far, far too flattering. They
+all seemed to have some pretty thing to say to me. I have felt a little
+spoilt ever since. However, I am going to try what a little more
+flattery will do for me, so Mr. Hungerford and I hope to accept, next
+Spring, a second invitation from the same friend, who wants us to go to
+a large ball she is going to give some time in May for some charitable
+institution--a Cottage Hospital I believe; but come', she adds,
+suddenly springing up, 'we have spent quite too much time over my
+stupid self. Come back to the drawing-room and the chicks, I am sure
+they must be wondering where we are, and the tea and the cakes are
+growing cold'.
+
+At this moment the door opens, and her husband, gun in hand, with muddy
+boots and gaiters, nods to you from the threshold; he says he dare not
+enter the 'den' in this state, and hurries up to change before joining
+the tea table. 'He is a great athlete', says his wife, 'good at
+cricket, football, and hockey, and equally fond of shooting, fishing,
+and riding'. That he is a capital whip, you have already found out.
+
+In the morning you see from the library window a flower garden and
+shrubbery, with rose trees galore, and after breakfast a stroll round
+the place is proposed. A brisk walk down the avenue first, and then
+back to the beech trees standing on the lawn, which slopes away from
+the house down to a river running at the bottom of a deep valley, up
+the long gravelled walk by the hall door, and you turn into a handsome
+walled kitchen garden, where fruit trees abound--apple and pear trees
+laden with fruit, a quarter of an acre of strawberry beds, and currant
+and raspberry bushes in plenty.
+
+But time and tide, trains and steamers, wait to for no man, or woman
+either. A few hours later you regretfully bid adieu to the charming
+little author, and watch her until the bend of the road hides her from
+your sight. Mr. Hungerford sees you through the first stage of the
+journey, which is all accomplished satisfactorily, and you reach home
+to find that whilst you have been luxuriating in fresh sea and country
+air, London has been wrapped in four days of gloom and darkness."
+
+
+
+
+Complement:
+
+
+
+Helen C. BLACK, _In memoriam The late Mrs. Hungerford_ from _The
+Englishwoman_ April 1897 pp. 102-105
+
+"The sad news of the death of the popular and well-known author, Mrs.
+Hungerford, has caused a universal thrill of sorrow, no less to her
+many friends than to the large section of the reading public, in every
+part of the globe where the English tongue is spoken, who delight in
+her simple but bright and witty love-stories, so full of pathos, so
+replete with tenderness and human interest. The melancholy event took
+place on Sunday morning, the 24th January, after many weeks' illness
+from typhoid fever, and has deprived what the beloved little writer was
+wont to call 'a perfectly happy and idyllic Irish home' of its chiefest
+treasure.
+
+The late Mrs. Hungerford came before the public at the early age of
+eighteen, when she made an immediate success with her first novel,
+_Phyllis_, which was read and accepted by Mr. James Payn, then reader
+for Messrs. Smith Elder & Co. Her natural bent towards literature had,
+however, manifested itself in childhood, when she took at school all
+the prizes in composition, and used to keep her playfellows enthralled
+by the stories and fairy-tales she invented and wrote for them. On
+leaving school she at once decided to adopt the pen as a profession, in
+which she has had so successful a career. The tone of _Phyllis_ was so
+fresh and ingenuous that it soon found favour with the public, and was
+shortly followed by the far-famed _Molly Bawn_--a title which was
+peculiarly associated with her, inasmuch as it was the name by which
+many friends called her--and a long series, numbering over forty
+novels, besides countless short stories for home and American
+magazines, where, together with Australia and India, she enjoyed a vast
+popularity. In America everything she wrote was rapidly printed off,
+first sheets of novels in hand being bought from her for Transatlantic
+publications long before there was any chance of their being completed,
+while every story she ever wrote can be found in the Tauchnitz series.
+Among her earlier works are _Portia_, _Mrs. Geoffrey_, _Airy Fairy
+Lilian_, _Rossmoyne_, etc., which were followed as years rolled on, by
+_Undercurrents_, _A Life's Remorse_, _A Born Coquette_--where her
+creation of the delightful old butler, Murphy, is equal to anything
+ever written by her compatriot Charles Lever--, _Nor Wife, nor Maid_,
+_The Professor's Experiment_, etc. The latest work that she lived to
+see published is a collection of clever, crisp stories, entitled _An
+Anxious Moment_, which, with a strange and pathetic significance,
+terminates with a brief paper called 'How I Write my Novels'. Two
+posthumous works were left completed, bearing the names, respectively,
+of _Lovice_, just issued, and _The Coming of Chloe_, which will shortly
+be brought out.
+
+Thoroughly wholesome in tone, bright and sparkling in style, the
+delicacy of here love-scenes and the lightness of touch that
+distinguishes her character sketches can only be equalled by the
+pathos, which every now and then she has thrown in, as if to temper her
+vivacity with a little shade. Here and there, as in the case of _Nor
+Wife, nor Maid_, she has struck a powerfully dramatic note, while her
+descriptions of scenery are especially vivid and delightful, and very
+often full of poetry.
+
+The late Mrs. Hungerford was the daughter of the late Rev. Canon
+Hamilton, Rector and Vicar Choral of St. Faughman's Cathedral, Ross
+Carberry, co. Cork, one of the oldest churches in Ireland. Her
+grandfather was John Hamilton, of Vesington, Dunboyne, a property
+thirteen miles out of Dublin. The family is very old, very
+distinguished, and came over from Scotland to Ireland in the Reign of
+James I. She was first married when very young, but her husband died
+five and a half years later, leaving her with three little girls. In
+1882, _en secondes noces_, she married Mr. Thomas Henry Hungerford, of
+St. Brenda's, Bandon, co. Cork, whose father's estate Cahirmore, of
+about eleven thousand acres, lies nearly twenty miles to the west of
+Bandon. By this most happy union, she has left three children--two
+sons and a daughter.
+
+Thoroughly domestic in all her tastes, with a love of gardening, and a
+practical knowledge of all the details of country life, which tend to
+make the home so comfortable, her unfailing sweet temper, ready wit and
+_espieglerie_, her powers of sympathy and strong common sense, caused
+her to be the life and center of her large household. Tenderly attached
+to her husband and family, by all of whom she was adored, she used
+often to say, with joy and pride, 'They came to her for everything, and
+told her everything, and it was a union of perfect love, confidence,
+and peace'. In social life she numbered a large circle of friends, to
+whom she was deservedly endeared by her many engaging qualities; she
+possessed, indeed, a magnetism which drew all hearts towards her. But
+seldom could Mrs. Hungerford be induced to leave her picturesque Irish
+home, even to pay visits to her friends in England. Her manifold
+duties, the cares of a large family, and her incessant literary work
+filled up a life that was complete, useful, and congenial, and leaves
+behind an irreparable blank.
+
+A brief description of the well-beloved little author and her pretty
+home will be interesting to those who knew her not, save through her
+works. She was a very tiny woman, but slight and well-proportioned,
+with baby hands and feet. The large hazel eyes, that sparkled with fun
+and merriment, were shaded by thick curly lashes; a small, determined
+mouth and slightly upturned chin gave a piquant expression to the
+intelligent face--so bright and vivacious. Her hair, of a fair brown
+colour, a little lighter than the eyelashes, was worn piled up on the
+top of her head, and broke away into natural curls over a broad and
+intellectual brow.
+
+Driving up the hill, past Ballymoden Church, in through the gates of
+Castle Barnard, Lord Bandon's beautiful old place covered with ivy, out
+through a second gate and over the railway, the gates of St. Brenda are
+reached. A private road, about half a mile long, hedged on either side
+with privet, hawthorn and golden furze, leads to the avenue proper, the
+entrance gate of which is flanked by two handsome deodars. It takes a
+few minutes more to arrive at the large square ivy-clad house an
+grounds, where beech trees stand on the lawn sloping away down to a
+river running at the bottom of a deep valley. The long gravelled walk
+by the hall door turns into a handsome walled kitchen garden, where
+apple and pear trees abound, together with a quarter of an acre of
+strawberry beds, currant, gooseberry, and raspberry bushes in plenty.
+From the library window can be seen the flower garden and shrubbery and
+a large variety of rose trees. Close by is her own special plot where
+she delighted to work with her own little implements, spade, trowel,
+hoe, and rake, planting her seeds, pricking her seedlings, pruning,
+grafting, and watching with deepest eagerness to see them grow. In
+spring-time her interest was alike divided between the opening buds of
+her daffodils and the breaking of the eggs of the first little chickens
+in the fine poultry yard, in the management of which she was so
+successful. But among all these multifarious and healthy outdoor
+occupations in which she delighted, Mrs. Hungerford invariably secured
+three hours daily for her literary pursuits, when everything was done
+with such method and order, the writing included, that there was little
+wonder that she got through so much.
+
+Her own writing-room bears the stamp of her taste and her love of
+study, where the big log-fire burned in the huge grate, and lighted up
+a splendid old oak cabinet that reaches from floor to ceiling, which,
+together with four other bookcases, are literally crammed to
+overflowing, while the picturesque is not wanting, as the many
+paintings, old china, ferns, plants and winter flowers can testify.
+
+On the great knee-hole writing table lies the now silent pen where last
+she used it, with each big or little bundle of MSS. methodically
+labelled, and a long list of engagements for work, extending into
+future years, now, alas! destined to remain unfulfilled!
+
+With so active a brain she was a bad sleeper, and always planned out
+her best schemes during the night, and wrote them out in the morning
+without difficulty. Driving, too, had a curious effect upon her; the
+action of the air seemed to stimulate her, and she disliked talking, or
+being talked to, when driving. She loved to think and to watch the
+lovely variations of the world around her, and would often come home
+filled with fresh ideas, scenes, and conversations, which she used to
+note down without even waiting to throw off her furs. If questioned how
+she went to work about a plot she would reply, with a reproachful
+little laugh, 'I never have a plot really, not the _bona fide_ plot one
+looks for in a novel. An idea comes to me, or I to it--a scene, a
+situation, a young man or a young woman--and on that mental hint I
+begin to build, and it has frequently happened to me that I have
+written the last chapter first, and so, as it were, worked backwards'.
+
+But in whatsoever form the gifted writer composed her novels the result
+was the same, and she will be widely mourned by the many, who in hours
+of sickness, of carking care or sorrow, owed a temporary respite from
+heavy thought, or the laugh that banishes ennui, to her ready pen--grave
+and gay by turns, but in every mood bewitching. During her long
+illness, with its constant relapses, its alternations of now hope, now
+despair, her patience and unselfishness were exhibited to a remarkable
+degree. Ever fearful to give trouble, hopeful and wishing to encourage
+the loved ones around her, she maintained a gentle cheerfulness and
+resignation, and finally passed away so peacefully that her sorrowing
+husband and children scarcely realised the moment when her spirit
+winged its flight to the better land, whence she, being dead, 'yet
+speaketh', for 'to live in hearts we leave behind is not to die'."
+
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