Anna Maria Hall

thumb|The love of ornament creeps slowly, but surely, into the female heart; the girl who twines the lily in her tresses, and looks at herself in the clear stream, will soon wish that the lily was fadeless, and the stream a mirror. Anna Maria Hall (née Fielding; 6 January 1800 – 30 January 1881) was an Irish novelist who often published as "Mrs. S. C. Hall". She married Samuel Carter Hall, a writer on art, who described her in Retrospect of a Long Life, from 1815 to 1883. She was in Dublin, but left Ireland for England at the age of 15. Quotes Alas! how truly did he tell her, that the love of ornament creeps slowly, but surely, into the female heart;—that the girl who twines the lily in her tresses, and looks at herself in the clear stream, will soon wish that the lily was fadeless, and the stream a mirror. "The Rose of Fennock Dale", in S. C. Hall (ed.) The Amulet, or Christian and Literary Remembrancer (London, 1829), p. 204 Misattributed Beauty depends more upon the movement of the face than upon the form of the features when at rest. Thus a countenance habitually under the influence of amiable feelings acquires a beauty of the highest order, from the frequency with which such feelings are the originating causes of the movement or expressions which stamp their character upon it. Attributed to "Mrs. S. C. Hall" in M. M. Ballou (ed.) Treasury of Thought, 7th ed. (Boston, 1881), p. 164. Actually by Sarah Stickney Ellis, The Daughters of England (London and Paris, [1842]), p. 174 External links M. M. Ballou (ed.) Notable Thoughts about Women: A Literary Mosaic (Boston, [1882]), pp. 241, 288 Category:1800 births Category:1881 deaths Category:Novelists from Ireland Category:Women authors from Ireland Category:Women born in the 19th century Category:Children's authors Category:Victorian novelists Category:Non-fiction authors from Ireland Category:People from Dublin