Grace Darling
Grace Horsley Darling (24 November 1815 – 20 October 1842) was an English Victorian heroine who in 1838, along with her father, saved 9 people from the wreck of the SS Forfarshire.
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“I was curious, I was avid to know only what I found more real than myself, that which allowed me to glimpse the thoughts of a great genius, or the force or grace of nature left to its own devices, without the intervention of man.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)
“All night long the darling daughter squirms
Wild where the Toddle and the Shimmy vie
In making passion virtuous and correct....”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)
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