"Memoirs of Mrs. Elizabeth Mortimer: with Selections from her Correspondence", by Agnes Bulmer, Published by T. Mason and G. Lane for the Methodist Episcopal church, New York, 1836. First American Edition [first British was issued in 1835]; illustrated with a frontispiece.

Hard boards, leather [leather creases between spine and boards, some wear]; 3.1/2" x 5.1/2"; engraved frontispiece has c.1/2" edge crease, 287 pages, some foxing, good+ condition.

Agnes Bulmer (1775-1836) was an English poet. She has written the longest epic poem ever written by a woman. The piece, "Messiah's Kingdom", took over nine years to complete. Bulmer's education provided her access to literature, which she enjoyed very much. By the age of twelve she had read Edward Young's "Night-Thoughts." It was a major influence on her own style. In 1788, by age fourteen she had published her first work, "On the Death of Charles Wesley."

Elizabeth Ritchie-Mortimer (1754-1835), was an English evangelical social worker and educator. She was influential in the Otley society as a teacher and spiritual advisor. She was also a prominent member of the Ladies' Working Society.

"In physical science general principles can be established only by accumulated facts. In the moral world the same procedure is equally essential and important. Truth refuses not the testimony of experience, but emits a splendour, and exerts an energy, proportioned to the candour, care, and diligence with which its evidences are examined. But if the investigations of science require that accuracy and attention, which nothing but a laudable curiosity, excited by deep interest in its subjects, can induce; how much more imperative is the demand for calm and discriminating observation, in the more difficult analysis of mind! The heart with its affections, the will, the conscience, with the various impulses which operate by turns on each, and, according to their powers and nature, determine not merely the intellectual, but also the moral, constitution; -- these require the cautious, prayerful, self- observant vigilance of the discerning Christian, in order to his adequate attainment of that most important branch of knowledge, an acquaintance with himself. Trained by these exercises to habits of attention, he is prepared to reap advantage, not only from his own experience, but from that of others; and thus accumulates a treasure of Divine and human wisdom, to which, amidst the strange vicissitudes of life's eventful journey, he finds innumerable occasions to recur." [excerpt from the Introduction]

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