“There is a pleasure in being convinced that this is not the place of my rest.”

An expression of the religious consolation she found while approaching death · Letter to her Dublin correspondent, 1 May 1844

• Consolation
• Death
• Faith

“As you observed, the more mystery the better: and still the balance is in favour of the 'Lords of the Creation.”

Reflecting on anonymity and the assumptions surrounding female authorship · Letter to a Ravelstone acquaintance, during the Scottish Minstrel period

• Convention
• Society
• Writing

“Time makes no difference with regard to some feelings. I once imagined a change of place and other circumstances might, but it is not so with me.”

Reflecting on emotions and attachments that survive both time and distance · Letter to Alicia Mason, 1834

• Emotion
• Memory
• Time