“This time of the year makes one so long for the far away — do not you think so?”

Connecting the changing season with longing for distant places and people · Letter fragment, familiar correspondence

• Memory
• Nature
• Solitude

“My own inexperience in transactions of this nature is just what might be expected from one whose life has hitherto been passed among the Welsh mountains.”

Linking literary inexperience with the secluded landscape of her Welsh life · Letter to H. H. Milman, 16 October 1821

• Art
• Nature

“The more I can throw my mind into any undertaking which interests my friends, the more I make to myself a place of refuge from personal suffering.”

Finding relief from private sorrow through purposeful work for friends · Letter fragment, familiar correspondence

• Art
• Friendship
• Hope