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MILTON’S DAUGHTERS.
BY F. L. M.
I sat with Miss Rutherford’s book,
“English Authors,” in my lap, looking at
the picture, Milton Dictating Paradise Lost.
It was not Milton’s figure that kept me
fascinated and loth to turn the page—it
was the room and the three girls. I won
dered what was the life of those motherless
girls, and what became of them after their
father’s death. No book to which I had
access mentioned them, except in the most
casual manner, and I despaired of ever
having my curiosity about them gratified—
but, “all things come to him who waits.”
Last November, I found myself in a
stately home, some sixty miles from the
“Great Father of Waters,” in an odd, little
library, a room tacked on to the eastern
corner of the house, seeming to be an after
thought, and given over mostly to dirt,
cobwebs and old books. There it was, one
afternoon that I found a treasure. I love
old things, and if I see a book in ancient,
leather binding, I pounce upon it. So
when I drew forth this particular book
(the treasure, aforesaid) from under piles
of others, I found it was published in 1796,
and to my great satisfaction contained
what I had long looked for, an account of
Milton’s daughters.
That I may share with others the pleasure
I am enjoying in this information, I re
produce it here.
The mother of Milton’s three daughters
was his first wife, Mary Powell. They
were under eight years of age and were not
sent to school, but “instructed by a mistress
kept at home for that purpose.” He, him
self, taught the two youngest to pronounce
and read Latin and Greek, and several
other languages, without understanding
any but English, for he used to say that
one tongue was enough for a woman. But
the girls found it very irksome work; and
this, together with “the sharpness and
severity” of their step-mother, made them
very unhappy at home. Alas, poor girls,
they had two step-mothers 1 So they were
sent away from home to learn things “more
proper for them,” and particularly em
broidery in gold and silver.
When Milton died he left his affairs
pretty much in the hands of his widow,
who, though she acknowledged that he
was worth one thousand five hundred
pounds, yet, only gave the girls one hun
dred npunds apiece.
’ Ar. Je was the 'eldest daughter, b'dt had
been excused from the classic reading to
which her sisters were subjected on account
of an impediment in her speech. She was
decrepit and deformed, but had a very hand
some face. She married a master-builder,
and died at the birth of her first child, who
died at the same time.
Mary, the second daughter, lived and
died unmarried.
Deborah, the youngest daughter, while
her father was still living, went over to
Ireland with a lady, and afterwards was
married to Mr. Abraham Clarke, a weaver
in Spitalfields, and died in August, 1727,
in the seventy-sixth year of her age. “She
was a woman of good understanding and
genteel behaviour, though in low circum
upon to read Homer, and “Ovid’s Metamor
phoses” to her father, she could repeat a
considerable number of verses from both
these poets, as . Mr. Ward, Professor of
Rhetoric College testified;
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had heard her repeat several verses out of
Euripides.
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knew her imn«rately to be Milton’s
daughter, by herstrong resemblance to her
father’s picture. He made her a handsome
present of a purse of guineas, and promised
to procure her an annual provision for life;
but as he died soon afterwards, she lost the
benefit of his generous design.
She often received presents from gentle
men ; and on one occasion Queen Caroline
sent her fifty pounds by Dr. Friend, her
physician, who was an excellent classical
scholar.
Debora was the mother of seven sons and
three daughters, none of whom left any
children, but her son Caleb and her
daughter Elizabeth. “It is uncertain,”
says our author, “whether any of Caleb’s
children are now living; but Elizabeth
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Spitalfields, and had seven children who
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