Life of Frances Power Cobbe, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint) - Frances Power Cobbe

Excerpt from Life of Frances Power Cobbe, Vol. 1 of 2
My life has been an interesting one to live and I hope that this record of it may not prove too dull to read. The days are past when biographers thought it necessary to apologize for the paucity of the adventures which they could recall and the obscurity of the achievements which their heroes might accomplish. We have gone far in the opposite direction, and are wont to relate in extenso details decidedly trivial, and to reproduce in imposing type correspondence which was scarcely worth the postage of the original manuscript. Our sense of the intrinsic interest of Humanity, as depicted either in biography or fiction, - that is, of the character of the personages of the drama going on upon our little stage, - has continually risen, while that of the action of the piece - the "incidents" which our fathers chiefly regarded - has fallen into the second plane. I fear I have been guilty in this book of recording many trifling memories and of reproducing some letters of little importance; but only through small touches could a happy childhood and youth be possibly depicted; and all the Letters have, I think, a certain value as relics and tokens of friendship, if not as expressions (as many of them are) of opinions carrying the weight of honored names.
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