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Mason, Mrs. Diana

Wife of Joseph and mother of three daughters, Diana, Creusa and Penelope.

"She was a little woman with long eyes, and regular eyelashes, with a straight nose, and thin lips and regular teeth.... She had been a beauty; but if it had been her lot to be known in history, it was not as a beauty she would have been famous. Parsimony was her great virtue and saving her strong point"