Tuesday, January 30, 2007

News at Eleven: [Charles] Dickens was referring

to Fanny Longfellow's shocking death six years earlier, apparently after her dress was ignited by candle wax as she was sealing an envelope containing a snippet of hair from one of her six children. [Henry Wadsworth] Longfellow's white beard hid scars from wounds he suffered while trying to smother the flames.

from Smithsonian Magazine: Famous Once Again

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