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 for London, and took up her residence at 146 Oakley Street, Chelsea, with her elder son, William, who was then on the staff of the Daily Telegraph. Here her literary activity began again. A charming book describing her visit to Denmark and Sweden, with several of her translations from Danish and Norwegian poems, is her "Driftwood from Scandinavia," published by Bentley in 1884, and another work of great interest is "Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms and Superstitions of Ireland." In the preface she says, "These studies of the Irish past are simply the expression of my love for the beautiful Island that gave me my first inspirations, my quickest intellectual impulses, and the strongest and best sympathies with genius and country, possible to a woman's nature."

Another book, "Ancient Cures of Ireland," was also published, and she was granted a pension of £50 a year from the Civil List in recognition of her services to literature. As she herself remarked, it was a strange coincidence that this pension should come through a Conservative Government.

There is no doubt that as years went on, her political opinions, once so violent, became greatly modified. Her style in writing, too, became less inflated, though in her Scandinavian sketches she does speak of "poor, dyspeptic, nervous, depressed, worn-out, hypochondriacal humanity." This habit