Fair Ladies Research Articles

‘A dream of fair ladies’ Mrs Cameron disguised

Abstract It is a disconcerting pleasure to meet old friends in unexpected settings. Mrs Cameron, whose name will be forever linked with Freshwater and Farringford on the Isle of Wight, spent her youth and early married life in India, returning home only in 1848. So it came about that she happened to be standing on the banks of the River Hooghly at Calcutta in the autumn of 1847, when the steamer carrying a young girl fresh from England let down its anchor. Miss Emily Metcalfe noted with maddening discretion in her journal.

Extra Supplement: Good Morrow, Fair Ladies

Extra Supplement: Good Morrow, Fair Ladies

Spider's Web, New Caledonia

CONSUL LAYARD'S account of the spiders' webs of the Polynesian Arachnids (NATURE, vol. xx. p. 456) reminds one of the colonial enthusiasm of certain fair ladies in Mauritius seventy years ago, previous to the capture of that island by General Abercrombie.