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 seriously impaired her fortune. She died at Bristol, in 1720, aged seventy-six.

Mrs. Bury often regretted the disadvantages of her sex, who, by their habits of education, and the customs of society, were illiberally excluded from the means of acquiring knowledge. She contended that mind was of no sex, and that man was no less an enemy to himself than to woman, in confining her attention to frivolous attainments. She often spoke with pleasure and gratitude of her own obligations to her father and her preceptors, for having risen superior to these unworthy prejudices, and opened to her the sources of intellectual enjoyment.

BURY, LADY CHARLOTTE, in her youth esteemed "The beauty of the Argyle family." As Lady Charlotte Campbell, she was one of the earliest Mends of Sir Walter Scott; the notice of a beautiful young woman of the highest rank whose taste for literature enables her to appreciate genius, could not be otherwise than flattering to a young poet whose fame was yet to be established. Lady Charlotte after she became a widow, was left in moderate circumstances with a family to advance: this state of things recommended her to an office in the household of the Princess of Wales, afterwards Queen Caroline, where she was admitted to the close intimacy of her mistress, from whom she received every sort of kindness, including large presents in money. She seems to have but indifferently requited these benefits, by a very scandalous publication, entitled, "Diary illustrative of the times of George the Fourth," in which, all the foibles of the unfortunate Caroline of Brunswick are held up to ridicule. This book appeared anonymously, but as it underwent a most scathing review from Lord Brougham, in which he proclaimed the author, and as Lady Charlotte never offered any denial, there can be no doubt that she is the delinquent. She has written a great number of what are termed "Fashionable novels," which have not survived their little hour. Some of them, if that may be considered an honour, have been drawn from the oblivion into which they had sunk to be republished in America, in the twenty-five cent form, to augment the immense supply of steamboat and rail-car literature. We will add the names of some thus distinguished. "A Marriage in High Life;" "The Divorce;" "Love;" "The Separation;" "Flirtation;" &c.

CALAGE, DE PECH DE, a native of Toulouse, in France. She seems to have lived in the reign of Louis the Thirteenth. She obtained the prize for poetry, at the Floral Games of Toulouse, several times.

CALAVRESE, MARIA, born at Rome in 1486, and was thought a good historical painter, as well in oil as in fresco. She worked for some time at Naples, but died at Rome in 1542.

CALDERON DE LA BARCA, FRANCES ERSKINE, by birth a native of Scotland, her father being a descendant