This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1895 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER II. ..". love will go by contrast, as by likes." Tennyson, The Sisters. Frances Milton, afterwards known in the literary world as Frances Trollope, was born at Stapleton, near Bristol, on the 1oth of March, 1780. Her father was the Reverend William Milton, who held at that time a living at Stapleton, but was subsequently, and for many years, Vicar of Heckfield, a New College Living just over the border of Berkshire, in Hampshire. Her mother was a Miss Gresley. That their descent on this side of the house was by no means ignored by her children, is proved by more than one jesting allusion to "the illustrious Norman blood that flows in our veins," and so on, in letters from her brother to Frances Milton. Mrs. Milton, nee Gresley, bore three children: Mary, Henry, and Frances. Of the early years of the Reverend William Milton's married life, I have no record. His wife died while her children were still very young, and Mr. Milton subsequently married a Miss Partington, by whom he had no family. He was a man of some attainments as a mathematician; and he had also a remarkable love for mechanics, and no inconsiderable abilities in that line. His tastes led him to spend a great deal of time and money on mechanical contrivances, from some of which he expected to reap large profits--an expectation which, it is perhaps needless to say, was never fulfilled. Mr. Milton's "patent coach," and the great fortune it was to earn, were the subject of some good-humoured joking among his own family. But his mechanical researches were not characterized by mere dilettante futility. A project of his for improving the port of Bristol, was deemed worthy of the thanks of the Corporation of that city, duly conveyed to him on an official parchment, which I have seen. And possib...