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An English poet and miscellaneous prose-writer; born in 1808; died 1877. She was a granddaughter of Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Her first book of poetry, "The Sorrows of Rosalie" (1829), was published when she was seventeen. Her "The Undying One" (1830), a poem; "A Voice from the Factories" (1836); "The Dream, and Other Poems" (1840); and "Aunt Carry's Ballads" (1847), contain much admired verse. She also wrote "Stuart of Dunleith" (1847), a novel, and "Lives of the Sheridans".