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    JOHANNA KINKEL. 307

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    * I<N • «»• The Decease Papers Of Johann...

    hours are got throug but woul few h d . , bring and The well moments all into or disorder ill of we rest must : when we proceed dare we can not to enjoy therefore work each . A s others few ourselves neg ' society lected _.

    , , pare we our This can settlement may at perhaps present here surprise , convenientl have broug you , ht but meet us the . more In case into this is thus debt : with the Kinkel profits our ' s friends escape of several , , than and

    years yet to come will be disposed y of . Xinkel has way been indisposed during his the bed last to five teach weeks and and deliver recovers lectures only with slowl his y , because bad throat compel for l hours ed to rise toget fr h om er .

    tend "With the me whole it is just of our the same large , household and besides . the I smile music at lessons the commiseration I have to superin ex- - cited bcommon laborers working ten hours a day . We have to toil much

    harder y than this . " There was but little time left in so busy a life for higher

    aspirations in poetry or composition . She wrote to Fanny Lewald in November , 1854 : —

    ficient compelled " _ISTo . opportunity Any to die one of laboring is hunger afforded . in If us the a of hi forei teaching gher gner spheres that in L in ondon of which knowled wishes we are , to most would support pro be - that which school

    himselfhe must be content with teaching any village - and master Science could , and do equall Classical y well Music . Our are courses princi of pall Lectures undertaken on Literature from , the History real

    gratification they are to ourselves . "We earn our y bread by the ABC and the Scales . "

    During tiie last few years of Frau Kinkel ' s life , the affairs of the family took a happier turn . Her reputation as a teacher became

    established in London , and the success of her husband in his Lectures on the History of Art , enabled her to take more leisure .

    Frau Kinkel found time to continue the musical education of her children ( containing , she 1 the als history o completed of a a German critical refugee work on famil music y , in and Eng a novel land )

    which , will shortly be published . The last letter she wrote was to a lady expressing her regret that illness prevented her from

    attending a school where she used to teach singing gratuitously to poor children . But the relief came too late . She had lived too much _,

    through the heart and that organ gave way . Two years ago an attack of paralysis " of the heart proved all but fatal , and from that

    time she could never feel safe from a return of it . Still as no alarming symptoms recurred , there seemed no immediate reason for

    apprehension , and it was with hope unmixed with , foreboding , that she saw the changes in Prussia which , would soon enable her ( and

    perhaps her husband also ) to see her beloved Rhine again . German " You friend must , soon ) our come house to is Eng so p land leasant again ! , The ( she children wrote just are a older year and ago make to a

    to verses every and one merry . KLnkel nonsense is also , and in good sing their spirits own . " songs and are an enjoyment Thus without any warning the fatal day arrived . An attack of

    bronchitis obliged her to keep the house , and on the 15 th of November , having performed her usual household duties by twelve

    o ' clockshe had a visit from her physician , Dr . Garth Wilkinson , who spoke , with confidence of her 8 _j ) eedy recovery .

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    Johanna Kinkel. 307

    JOHANNA KINKEL . 307

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1859, page 307, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011859/page/19/