The Goodliffe Family of Nottingham

The Story of My Life - The original, handwritten version of the Memoirs of Arnold Goodliffe

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words to me. He set us a good example of truthfulness and kindness. He left almost everything as to our education and management to my mother, who had been a kind and affectionate wife to him. They lived about 36 years together. My Mother was I have said the eldest daughter of John and Elizabeth Arnold of Barrowden, was born about the year 1771. Her parents sent her to Leicester to school, she was liberally educated for the times. She gave promise of some literary ability. I saw and read some blank verse and in her young days, she determined to write a novel. She wrote considerably, but when her mind became impressed with Gospel truth, she laid aside what she had written and devoted herself to sacred poetry and the writings of Robinson, Hannah Moore, Mrs Barbould, and the

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