Hill-Side Flowers
by Julia Matilda Tillotson Olin

Hill-Side Flowers
Julia Matilda Tillotson Olin, author

Hillside Flowers by Julia Matilda Tillotson Olin includes engraved illustrations and many lovely poems from many sources. 

This edition has a gift inscription written with a delicate hand  on the front free endpaper: Miss Minnie C. Tuttle. From her Amityville Friends. Christmas 1876. 

Introduction by Rev. Bishop Matthew Simpson (1811-1884) of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 

Hill-Side Flowers was published for the Author by Carlton & Phillips, 200 Mulberry Street in 1856.  240 pages, 8.25 x 5.5 x 1 inches, 21 cm. 

Julia Matilda Olin (1814-1879) was born to Judge James and Janet Lynch Tillotson and wed to Rev. Dr. Stephen Olin in 1843. Mrs. Olin served as secretary of the New York Female Bible Society and was the first president of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, New York Branch (1869). 

Julia's literary accomplishments include both prose and poetry, and she also edited her husband's sermons which were published under several titles. 

Founder (1855) of the Hillside Chapel in Rhinebeck, New York, the connection of the book of poetry titled Hillside Flowers published in 1856 to this event is obvious (Source: The Biographical Dictionary of America, 1906).

JANE AUSTEN POEMS AND FAVOURITE POEMS Douglas Brooks Davies Book Review

Jane AustenPoems and Favorite PoemsEveryman's Poetry 52
J.M. Dent, London
© J.M. Dent 1998

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I will admit that I have not read many of the excellent books by Jane Austen, but this book, Jane Austen: Poems and Favourite Poems, came my way, and today I sat down and took a look. Jane Austen wrote very few poems, 20 in all it seems is the number. They poetry is entertaining, fun, and as the editor describes, a window of sorts into the personal Jane Austen, who died in her early forties from what may have been Addison's disease.
If that were all the book contained I might wonder if it had much value, but there is so much more that will delight and aid the Jane Austen student and afficionado.

• Chronology of the life of Jane Austen with a parallel chronology of times in which she lived
• Introduction
• Jane Austen's Poems
• Excerpts from the poems Jane Austen is known to have read and valued. Included poets: James Beatti, Isaac Hawkins Browne, Robert Burns, Lord Byron, Thomas Campbell, William Cowper, George Crabbe, David Garrick, John Gay, Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Gray, James Merrick, John Milton, Thomas Moss, Alexander Pope, Matthew Prior, Anon (Robin Adair), Sir Walter Scott, Robert Southey, James Thomson, William Whitehead
• Notes

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