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POEMS OF A NOTTINGHAM LACE-RUNNER
Appendix: Mary Bailey's obituary
On Sunday evening, Mrs. Mary Bailey, wife of Mr. Bailey, tailor, New Charles-Street, Nottingham. Among "the short and simple annals of the poor," we know of few individuals who have greater claims to the sympathy of the opulent, than the object of this memoir could show. She had evidently received an education superior to the rank of life in which she latterly moved, and her conversation afforded ample evidence of her claims; she had been ladies' maid in a family of rank and title. Some months ago she published a small pamphlet of poems, in order to procure her some assistance in supporting a sick husband and a numerous family of helpless children; and she met with encouragement from many respectable ladies in Nottingham, who commiserated her abject condition. The first and last verse of a poem addressed to her twin infants, born about fifteen months since, are as follows... [quotes from 'The Author to Her Infant Twins') ...About six weeks ago she was confined of her ninth surviving child; in a fortnight after she was sufficiently recovered to go out, when being employed to write a letter (which she was in the habit of doing for females of inferior attainments) she took cold; an inflammation fixed on her lungs, she was too poor to employ medical assistance, and her benefactors were not aware of her situation till too late. On Wednesday her remains were followed to the grave by her husband, and their nine children, the eldest of whom is not thirteen, and the three youngest were carried in the arms of sympathising neighbours. We hope that the relief which was afforded to the mother by the bountiful, will not be withheld from the destitute children, whose father's delicate health precludes the labour necessary for their maintenance.
(`Died', Nottingham Review and General Advertiser for the Midland Counties, Friday 29 August 1828, p. 3.)
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To a Lady who visited the author when she was in great distress 14
To a Lady who desired me to pray for the death of youngest child 17
Petition to the British Fair 19
On the Death of the Revd. Dr. Wylde, late of Nottingham 21
Lines, Written in July, on Widow Hind's garden, at Hints, in Staffordshire 26
Lines On the Death of a Gentleman of Basford 31
The Author to Her Infant Twins 35
Appendix: Mary Bailey's Obituary 37
Index of titles and first lines 42
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