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Lucy Aiken

“... the longer I live the more am I convinced that connections formed in early childhood are the strongest, the most durable, and the most delightful of all.”
- Lucy Aiken,
- 1803, in Ada M. Ingpen, ed., Women As Letter-Writers (1909)

Lucy Aiken, English historical writer, biographer, letterwriter

(1781 - 1864)

She also wrote under the name Mary Godolphin.