FAMILY AND DOMESTICITY

In 1875, a group of Anglophone transplants living in Italy co-published A Wreath of Stray Leaves: To the Memory of Emily Bliss Gould.¹ In his introductory note, T. Adolphus Trollope explained that the volume, originally envisioned as a fund-raiser for a school for poor Italian children being led by Mrs Gould, had been transformed into a memorial in the wake of her untimely death. In a preface, Mary Howitt credited Emily Gould’s vision for ‘twenty orphans’ to join a new home school where, by learning to typeset while developing their own personal literacies, they would blend ‘education, intellectual and moral’