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Caroline Howard Jervey

  • “... here are what you have just wished for, a set of pearls for Sybil. I heard you say that her dress was to be of white, and knowng that there could be such a thing as painting the rose and gilding the lily, I trust that she will accept them ... ”

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Caroline Howard Jervey, U.S. writer

(1794 - 1888)

Full name: Caroline Howard Gilman Glover Jervey. Wrote sometimes as Caroline Howard.