Life of Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck by Christiana Hankin, 1858 second edition.

Written by Christiana C. Hankin. Second edition, 1858. Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts. London.

Autobiography of Mary Anne SchimmelPenninck
Part I 1778 - 1787

"I was born in the evening of the 25th of November, 1778, in Steel-House Lane, at my grandfather's house of business in Birmingham, where my father, Samuel Galton, then lived. My mother was Lucy Barclay. My grandfather resided at that time at Dudson, a country-house distant about a mile and a half from that town. My first recollections date from 1782; when we had removed to Hagley Row, the Five Ways, which was then the Clifton of Birmingham. I remember the aged Judge Oliver, Lord Chief Justice of Massachusetts, as then living within two or three doors of us; and the pleasure it was to me to be allowed to hand to his relative, Governor Hutchinson, a rich cup of chocolate in his morning calls, and to be taken on his knee afterwards and hear all about the Falls of Niagara and hunting the bisons; to look through his Claude glass and his telescope; and to see a collection of little curiosities, which he delighted to make, and to show to children."

Mary Anne SchimmelPenninck (1778 - 1856) received a strict Quaker upbringing as the eldest child of Samuel "John" Galton and his wife, Lucy Barclay. Her family was well-connected, counting among their friends notable figures such as Erasmus Darwin and Joseph Priestley. In 1806, she married Lambert SchimmelPenninck, a member of a Dutch family involved in the shipping trade. Despite facing financial difficulties and a familial estrangement, Mary Anne turned to literature for a livelihood. She published works on various subjects, including a compilation on the Port-Royalists and a treatise on aesthetics. Her interest in phrenology led her to develop a system for recording phrenological examinations. Throughout her life, Mary Anne's religious beliefs evolved, and she eventually joined the Moravian church.

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