She would have youth, beauty, wit, genius; she would not trouble about wealth.

She would admit no one who was not famous for some qualification or other--some grace of body or mind--some talent or great gift.

The house should be open to talent of all kinds, but never open to anything commonplace.

She would be the encourager of genius, the patroness of the fine arts, the friend of all talent.
It was a splendid career that she marked out for herself, and she was the one woman in England especially adapted for it The only objection to it was that while she gave every scope to imagination--while she provided for all intellectual wants and needs--she made no allowance for the affections; they never entered into her calculations.
In a few weeks half London was talking about the beautiful Duchess of Hazlewood.

In all the "Fashionable Intelligence" of the day she had a long paragraph to herself.