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Autograph Letter Signed, to “My dear Madam”, now “occupied with the Marriage of my youngest daughter”, “working hard to clear the immense arrears of things to be done consequent upon my long illness & this Marriage following so hard upon …” 3 pp. 6 x 4 inches, in good condition. Eastbury, 19 May 1853. Anne Marsh (1791-1874), author of popular novels, her best-known being Emily Wyndham (1846). Margaret Oliphant grouped her with Catherine Gore and Frances Trollope as ‘the respectable elder sisters of the literary corporation’, contrasting ‘the goodness that lies in her old-fashioned moral’ with the passionate rebelliousness given free rein in the novels of Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell, and other younger writers. [ODNB]