Linnet, Miss Mary

Mrs. Linnet's elder daughter, an amiable, colourless woman past her first youth, who is in love with Mr. Tryan. "She had always combined a love of serious and poetical reading with her skill in fancywork, and the neatly-bound copies of Dryden's Virgil, Hannah More's Sacred Dramas, Falconer's Shipwreck, Mason On Self-Knowledge, Rasselas, and Burke On the Sublime and Beautiful, which were the chief ornaments of the book-case . . . had been bought with her pocket-money when she was in her teens . . . Miss Linnet had dark ringlets, a sallow complexion, and an amiable disposition. As to her features, there was not much to criticize in them, for she had little nose, less lip, and no eye brow; and as to her intellect, her friend Mrs. Pettifer often said: 'She didn't know a more sensible person to talk to than Mary Linnet' . . . While most peopJe thought it a pity that a sensible woman like Mary had not found a good husband." In the lists of originals prepared in Nuneaton after he publication of Scenes of Clerical Life, the originals of the Misses Linnet were the Misses Hill. Mrs. Linnet was Mrs. Hill. (Manuscript notes.)

<em>Janet's Repentance</em>

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