Memories of My Life

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Excerpt from Memories of My Life: Being My Personal, Professional and Social Recollections as Woman and ArtistMY mother was fond Of travelling she would go from Spain to England, from London to Paris, from Paris to Berlin, and from there to Christiania, then she would come back, embrace me, and set out again for Holland, her native country. She used to send my nurse clothing for herself and cakes for me. To one of my aunts she would write Look after little Sarah I shall return in a months time. A month later she would write to another of her sisters: Go and see the child at her nurse's, I shall be back in a couple of weeks.My mother's age was nineteen I was three years Old, and my two aunts were seventeen and twenty years of age, another aunt was fifteen, and the eldest was twenty-eight, but the last one lived at Martinique, and was the mother of six children. My grandmother was blind, my grandfather dead, and my father had been in China for the last two years. I have no idea why he had gone there.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.