Pleasance Smith
Pleasance Smith (11 May 1773 – 3 February 1877) (née Reeve) was an English letter writer and literary editor.
Pleasance Smith | |
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 "as a gypsy" by John Opie | |
| Born | Pleasance Reeve 11 May 1773 |
| Died | 3 February 1877 (aged 103) Lowestoft, Suffolk, England |
| Known for | correspondence, being a 19th century centenarian |
| Title | Lady |
| Spouse(s) | Sir James Edward Smith |
Life
Smith was born in Lowestoft, Suffolk in 1773. She married James Edward Smith. After she married in 1796 she was painted "as a gypsy" by John Opie.
After her husband died in 1828 she edited a biography of him which included some of his letters. This was published in 1832.[1]
Smith died in Lowestoft having already achieved an age of 100 in 1873. She was said to have retained her faculties and most of her teeth. She received a personal letter from Queen Victoria to "her friend" on her 100th birthday.[2]
gollark: So, progress on the potatoupdates™ system, I now have a script generating manifest files which are deterministically generated from the exact contents of a PotatOS version™.
gollark: > multiprocessing.pool objects have internal resources that need to be properly managed (like any other resource) by using the pool as a context manager or by calling close() and terminate() manually. Failure to do this can lead to the process hanging on finalization.> Note that is not correct to rely on the garbage colletor to destroy the pool as CPython does not assure that the finalizer of the pool will be called (see object.__del__() for more information).Great abstraction there, Python. Really great.
gollark: No, I mean I was reading from underneath the line it highlighted, which was the POST documentation.
gollark: Oh, never mind, the link was just being confusing.
gollark: Why is there a body argument for *GET* requests?
References
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- James Edward Smith; Pleasance Smith (24 November 2011). Memoir and Correspondence of the Late Sir James Edward Smith, M.D. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-108-03708-2.
- Pleasance Smith, ODNB, Retrieved 6 July 2016
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