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Henrietta Benham Prentice
The nameless wife is named by John James Piatt:
In the spring of 1835, Mr. Prentice married Miss Henrietta Benham, daughter of Joseph Benham, then a lawyer of some local distinction in Cincinnati and Louisville. Mrs. Prentice was a native of Ohio. She had great beauty of person in her youth, I have understood; in her middle life, when I first saw her, she was still fine-looking, having a handsome and attractive face, a stately figure, an elegant and gracious manner. With a naturally fine intellect, and many accomplishments of education, she had a heart of unusual sensibility—she could not listen without quick visible emotion to any tale of distress or suffering and her charities near home were numerous. She enjoyed private distinction in Louisville as a singer, having a voice of much power and beauty, and showed talent as a composer of music. During her life the house of Mr. Prentice was a center of whatever was refined and graceful in Louisville society, Mrs. Prentice being for many years a social leader in that city. …
— John James Piatt in the “Biographical Sketch” from The Poems of George D. Prentice (1876).
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2 Comments
1. Terry replies at 23rd April 2006, 1:15 pm :
I love how you track down the invisible women! Very cool.
2. sherry replies at 23rd April 2006, 6:03 pm :
I was having a good time reading the conversation at Frankengirl’s discussion of Rebecca. Talk about your invisible women — they were talking about Rebecca and Jane Eyre and all those evil, unseen wives. So I’m not the only one.
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