Virginia PATTLE (1827

Events in Virginia PATTLE (1827 - 1910)'s life
Date	Age	Event	Place	Notes	Src
1827		Virginia PATTLE was born
1845	18	Death of father James PATTLE (aged 70)		Note 1
1845	18	Death of mother Adeline PATTLE (aged 52)		Note 2
1910	83	Virginia PATTLE died

Note 1: family lore: "he was packed off home in a cask of spirits, which cask, exploding, ejected his unbottled corpse before his widow's eyes, drove her out of her wits, set the ship on fire and stranded it in Hooghly"(Bell 14)

Note 2: died on ship back to England with husband's corpse

Personal Notes:

EDUCATION:

MAJOR LIFE EVENTS:

CHILDHOOD TEMPERAMENT:

ADULT TEMPERAMENT:
-"she was a dashing, worldly woman, impulsive, rather eccentric, who lived in great style" (Bell 15)

ADULT SOCIAL BEHAVIOR:

ADULT WORK HABITS:

SIGNS OF MANIA/HYPOMANIA:

SIGNS OF DEPRESSION:

PHYSICAL AILMENTS/CHRONIC ILLNESSES:

ALCOHOL/OTHER DRUG ABUSES:

HOSPITALIZATION:

OTHER:
-her daughter Isabel married Lord Henry Somerset. Unhappy marriage. He wrote "One More Passionate Kiss, this embrace was reserved however, not for his beautiful wife but for the second footman" (Bell 14). Made public scandal and then "good society would have nothing more to do with her..she was obliged to retire from the world and decided to devote herself to the reclamation of inebriate women, a task which she undertook with so much good sense and good humour that she won the affection and admiration, not only of men of charity and good-will, but even of the women she assisted" (Bell 15)

Source References:

1. Type: Book, Title: Virginia Woolf: A Biography, Auth: Quentin Bell, Publ: Mariner Books, Date: 1974

- Reference = 14, 15 (Name, Notes)

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