“I have had pleasing and gratifying things to relate; but, alas! he, to…” — Amelia Alderson Opie

“I have had pleasing and gratifying things to relate; but, alas! he, to whom the relation would have given such pleasure, is gone; and even on the instant my pleasure has been swallowed up in pain.”

Capturing how bereavement can suddenly transform pleasure into grief · Letter, 29 June 1827

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Amelia Alderson Opie

About Amelia Alderson Opie

12 November 1769–2 December 1853

Amelia Alderson Opie entered the world on a crisp November day in 1769, born into the bustling heart of Norwich, that ancient cathedral city pulsing with intellectual and radical energy. The only child of Dr. James Alderson, a respected physician known for his generosity to the poor and his progressive views, and his…

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