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Pell, Ella Ferris

painter, sculptor, was born Jan. 18, 1846, in St. Louis, Mo. She has given special attention to portraiture and figure composition. Her most important work is The Angel Showing Adam the Consequences of His Sin. She is the president of the Liberal Art league of New York city.

PELLEW, [WILLIAM] GEORGE, author, was born in 1859, in England. He was a writer of New York city; and the author of Jane Austen's Novels, a Dissertation; In Castle and Cabin, or Talks in Ireland; Woman and the Commonwealth; and Life of John Jay. He died in 1893.

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