Cornwallis, CAROLINE FRANCES

Cornwallis, CAROLINE FRANCES, was born on the 12th July 1786, the daughter of the rector of Wittersham and Eltham, in Kent. She acquired a thorough knowledge of Latin and Greek, and making herself conversant with nearly every study which occupies thoughtful men, from an early age she carried on a correspondence with many eminent persons. Her refusal to accept the hand of Sismondi did not forfeit his friendship, and she lived much in Italy. Her first work, Philosophical Theories and Philosophical Experience, by a Pariah (1842), was the first of a series of twenty 'Small Books on Great Subjects,' the said subjects including the Connection of Physiology and Intellectual Science, Ragged Schools, Criminal Law, Greek Philosophy, and the History and Influence of Christian Opinions. Miss Cornwallis also published in 1847, Pericles, a Tale of Athens. She died at Lidwells, in Kent, 8th January 1858. See her Letters and Remains (1864).