The Goodliffe Family of Nottingham

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

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and her sympathy for the young well adapted for that important work. She had a few boarders at the Lodge, but the unsuitableness of the house prevented it becoming an increasing school. So by invitation and arrangement she came to Nottingham in 1824 to rooms in her brother William’s house, but owing to an utter dissimilarity of mental, social and general characteristics of mind, existing between her William’s wife, the enterprise resulted in utter failure, and misery to my sensitive sister Mary. I well remember her crying out in the agony of her heart “Oh Arnold, our brother William will never know the true love and tenderness of a true woman’s heart”. She gathered no number of scholars, and soon decided to leave, and took a little new house in Denman St. Radford, where she was

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