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Almost a Peeress, Miss Fletcher, who writes under the name of “George Fleming,” and who is the author of that successful comedy entitled “The Canary,” which is now drawing such big houses in London, narrowly escaped becoming a peeress of the realm. She was at one time engaged to the Earl of Lovelace, one of the forty seven peers who as Lord Wentworth voted in the house of lords in favor of Mr. Gladstone’s home rule bill, his father, the late Lord Lovelace, casting his vote against the measure from the opposite side of the house. Miss Fletcher, who is an American lady, was jilted by Lord Lovelace (then Lord Wentworth) at Rome on the eve of the day appointed for their marriage. No one knows the cause of the rupture. But, whatever it was, it had the effect of rendering Miss Fletcher so ill that for a time her life was despaired of. The are some who imagine that they are able to find a clue to the mystery in the novel that she wrote after this im portant episode in her life. But I doubt it. She is probably happier today than she would have been as Lady Lovelace. For the earl is ec centric—not a matter of surprise when it is remembered that he is a grandson of that erratic genius, the poet Lord Byron, the late Countess of Lovelace having been the bard's only child, Ada, to whom so many of Byron’s most lovely poems were addressed.
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Graham Leader
Graham, Texas, US
Fri, Jan 26, 1900
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