Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 292, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1913 — Greatly Desired Lady. [ARTICLE]

Greatly Desired Lady.

It would appear from bits of the social gossip of her day that Miss Bur-dett-Coutts’ nearest approach to an occupation was refusing offers of marriage. It is stated that the name of the “Prince of Adventures” was connected with hers; that she refused the duke of Wellington and a score of lesser gentlemen. For years the great heiress was the most glittering matrimonial prize in England, and when at last she consented to change her condition by marrying an American, a London club wit struck a responsive chord by observing, “I don’t blame Ashmead Bartlett for proposing to the baroness. I’ve done it myself. I regard it as a duty every Englishman owes to his family.”—“lntimate Memoirs of Napoleon in.”