Word: childhood
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...From childhood up, he held the first place in the circle which surrounded him. His faculties were large and splendid. His imagination was grand, sombre, sometimes appalling and his humor is as genuine as it is fantastic...
...Adams is evidently a great admirer of Miss Austen, and, while at times he allows this heroic-worship to color some of his accounts, his story of her life is, in general, correct and readable. He tells of her "childhood at Steventon," her "first visit to Bath," her "removal to Bath," her enjoyment of society there, and a thousand and one things which are or interest to the admirers of Miss Austen. Mr. Adams spent the summer of 1889 in visiting all the localities once familiar to Jane Austen and the descriptions of Bath, Steventon, Chamton, and other places...