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Rh . She died at Alba, October, 1582, but before her death there were thirty convents founded for her followers. She was canonized by Pope Gregory the Fifteenth. She left an autobiography, and several other works.

THICKNESSE, ANNE, born in the Temple, in London, in 1787. Her beauty and talents early introduced her into the world of fashion. She gave three concerts on her own account, having left her father's house to avoid being forced into a marriage. By her concerts she is said to have realized £1500; and acquiring the patronage of Lady Betty Thicknesse, became domesticated in her family. On the death of this lady, she married Governor Thicknesse, and accompanied her husband on various journeys. She was with him in France when he died, in 1792, and narrowly escaped execution, Robespierre having sent an order to that effect. On her liberation she returned to England, and died at her house, in the Edgware Road, in 1824, Her principal works are "Biographical Sketches of Literary Females of the French Nation" and "The School of Fashion," a novel.

THIERRY, MADAME, the wife of the distinguished historian, and has merited a very charming acknowledgment from that illustrious author. In one of his prefaces, adverting to his misfortune—one of the greatest to a man fond of books, his blindness—he declares that "his wife has been to him his eyes, his memory, his unfailing helpmate; without whom his great works could scarcely have been accomplished, so untiring and intelligent was her constant assistance; adding to the offices of a zealous secretary, the sympathy and encouragement of affection."

He adds that her abilities are equal, if not superior to his own; and that only her extreme modesty prevents her taking works of importance. In this opinion we cannot concur with the author of the "Norman Conquest." The sketches Madame Thierry has published are pretty stories, neatly written, and nothing more. "Scenes de Moeurs," and "Adelaide," could only have been written by a woman of cultivated and elegant mind, but they evince no extraordinary intellectual powers. Still, we consider her entitled to a high place among distinguished women, because she has won for her husband such a beautiful eulogium on her talents, and on the manner in which she has employed them. We may see, in this example, of what inestimable benefit to the husband the cultivated intellect of the wife may become, if he has true nobleness of soul to encourage the development and rightly estimate the mind of his wife.

THISBE, Babylonian maiden, whose unhappy love for Pyranius has rendered her immortal. The parents of the lovers opposing their union, they were able to converse only through a hole in the wall which separated their parents' houses. They made an appointment to meet at the tomb of Ninus without the city. This became first, and frightened by the appearance of a lioness, she fled to a neighbouring thicket, dropping her mantle in her flight, which was torn to pieces by the animal Pyramus coming