I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.

“Fiction must stick to facts, and the truer the facts the better the fiction — s…”

“Such are the visions which ceaselessly float up, pace beside, put their faces i…”

“in this case, a mother, noted for her beauty, might be reduced to a purple shad…”

“He was drowned, he used to say, and lying on a cliff with gulls screaming over …”