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 fled to her aunt, the Duchess of Bavaria, which title she assumed, when her cousin Odillo, enchanted with her courage and beauty, married her.

Five years afterwards, Odillo declared war against the Franks, but fell, badly wounded, a prisoner into the hands of his enemies. Hiltrudis disguised herself as a knight, and followed her husband to the court of her brothers, where she arrived just in time to assist at the Baptism of Charlemagne, whom she presented with costly jewels. She was recognised by her brothers, reconciled to them, and obtained the liberty of her husband. She died in the year 769, and was buried in Osterhofer, by the side of Odillo.

HODSON, MARGARET, birth Miss Holford, is very favourably known as a poetess. Her chief work, entitled "Margaret of Anjou," is a poem in ten cantos, in which the story of this unfortunate Queen is eloquently and graphically told. She has also written "Wallace, or the Flight of Falkirk," and some miscellaneous verses. Her poetical writings display a strong, romantic, vigorous genius, lofty and daring in its flight, and essentially firm and healthy in its constitution. Like Miss Baillie, she finds that simplicity is the truest strength; and she never exhibits the slightest leaning towards the rhapsodical or sentimental. Her stories are skilfully conducted, and like a thread of gold is the Vivid interest which runs through them from the first to the last.

HOFLAND, BARBARA, born in 1770, at Sheffield, where her father, Mr. Robert Wreaks, was an extensive manufacturer. In 1796, Miss Wreaks married Mr. T. Bradshaw Hoole, a young man connected with a large mercantile house in Sheffield; but he died in two years after their marriage, leaving her with an infant son only four mouths old; and soon after, she lost the greater part of her property. Mrs. Hoole, in 1805, published a volume of poems, with the proceeds of which she established herself in a small school, at Harrogate, where she continued to write, but principally in prose. In 1808, Mrs. Hoole married Mr. Thomas C. Hofland, a landscape-painter, and went with him to London. She still pursued her writing with, great zeal, and in 1812 published five works.

In 1833 she lost her son by Mr. Hoole; and her husband died in 1843. She had continued to write till this time, but her health now failed, and she expired the following year, 1844, aged seventy-four. Her principal works are, "The Clergyman's Widow," "The Daughter-in-Law," "Emily," "The Son of a Genius," "Beatrice," "Says she to her Neighbour, What?" "Captives in India," "The Unloved One," "Daniel Dennison," &c. &c. All her productions are moral and instructive; she was earnest in her purpose of doing good. And she has done much service to the cause of improvement, though her works are not of that high order of genius which keeps its place in the heart of humanity, because its productions mirror life and not manners.

HOHENHAUSER, PHILIPPINE AMALIE ELISE VON, 1790, daughter of the Westphalian General von Ochs, was married, in 1810, to Leopold, Baron von Hohenhauser. In 1816,