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 was born in 1781. Her grandfather, J. L. W. Gleim, and several literary friends, contributed greatly to the development of her natural talents. From her earliest youth, she felt a strong bias towards the calling of a teacher. She considered herself in duty bound to devote her life to the amelioration of the mental condition of her sex. She established a female school, which continued to flourish for a long time as a model institution for the region of the country in which she lived. Her work on Cookery obtained for her quite a celebrity as a housekeeper, and went through seven or eight editions. She next published "The German Reader." Then followed "The Education of Females in the Nineteenth Century." Soon afterwards appeared "The Education of Women, and the assertion of their dignity in the various Conditions of Life." She also prepared several primary grammars, and a number of other school-books, upon various topics. Her works have proved of much utility, and her life was a lesson to all who wish to do good to their race. She died March 27th., 1807, at the Institution founded by herself, a fitting monument of her earnest philanthropy

GLENORCHY, WILHELMINA MAXWELL, LADY, for her piety and benevolence, was born at Preston, In North Britain, in 1742. Lovely, agreeable, wealthy, and allied to a noble house, her premature widowhood, and a severe illness, induced her in her twenty-third year to retire from the gaieties of the world, and devote her time wholly to religious duties. She exerted herself principally for the education of youth, and trained up hundreds of children to fill useful stations in society. She endowed a free-school at Edinburgh, built four chapels, and founded and endowed schools in different places, besides educating several young men for the ministry, and bestowing large sums in private acts of benevolence. To enable her to carry out these schemes, she denied herself luxuries, and in every way practised the greatest economy. She died in 1780, leaving the greater part of her property to charitable purposes.

GLOVER, JULIA, maiden name of this lady was Betterton; she was born in 1780, in the town of Newry, Ireland, where her father was the manager of a small provincial company. Her career as an actress extends over a period of half a century, and presents many interesting facts for the biographer, associated as it is with that of Mrs. Siddons, the Kembles, and all the theatrical notabilities of that histrionic era. At the age of ten. Miss Betterton was considered a kind of infant phenomenon; and at fifteen we find her taking such difficult characters as Miss Hoyde, Lydia Languish, Julia, and Imogen, with signal success. In 1797, she appeared on the Drury Lane stage, as Elwyna, in Hannah More's "Percy;" and from that time until quite recently, when she took her farewell at the same theatre, she has maintained her position as one of the most popular of English actresses. She has shone almost equally in tragedy and comedy, but her efforts in the latter line have been generally considered as most successful.

In 1800, Miss Betterton married Mr. Samuel Glover, who was supposed to be heir to a large fortune, but this proved a fallacy; he was an idle and dissolute man, and his extravagance and un-