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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 148 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NADEN, See also:CONSTANCE See also:CAROLINE WOODHILL (1858-1889) , See also:English author, was See also:born at Edgbaston, on the 24th of See also:January 1858, her See also:father being an architect. Her See also:mother died just after the See also:child's See also:birth, and Constance was brought up in the See also:home of her grandfather. In 1881 she began to study See also:physical See also:science at See also:Mason See also:College, See also:Birmingham. In 1881 she published Songs and Sonnets of Springtime; in 1887, A See also:Modern Apostle, and other Poems. Her poems made such an impression on W. E. See also:Gladstone that he included her, in an See also:article in the See also:Speaker, among the fore-most English poetesses of the See also:day. After her grandfather's See also:death See also:Miss Naden found herself See also:rich, and she travelled in the See also:East and then (1888) settled in See also:London. She died on the 23rd of See also:December 1889. After 1876 she had paid increasing See also:attention to See also:philosophy, with her friend Dr See also:Robert Lewins, and the two had formulated a See also:system of their own, which they called " Hylo-See also:Idealism." Her See also:main ideas on the subject are contained in a See also:posthumous See also:volume of her essays (See also:Induction and See also:Deduction, 1890), edited by Dr Lewins.

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