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The success of _Rienzi_ in America, and the previous re-publication in that country of a small volume of the _Narrative Poems on the Female Character_, had brought Miss Mitford’s name prominently before the American people, and towards the end of 1830 she was gratified by the receipt of a long letter of congratulation from Miss Catharine Maria Sedgwick,[26] an American author of some repute in her day, who had, that year, published a novel entitled _Hope Leslie_. The letter mentioned the despatch of an author’s copy of one of the writer’s books and asked for particulars of the village and home-life of Miss Mitford, whose volumes on _Our Village_ were being read with avidity across the Atlantic. It drew a long and characteristic reply.