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She was by nature and choice the advocate of the oppressed, whenever and wherever met with. The aristocratic élégant Rumohr was obliged to put up with the following from her: "Why are you not willing to exchange your boredom, your melancholy caprices, for a rifle?
The most important writers on Signorelli Crowe and Cavalcaselle, Rumohr, and, above all, Vischer, mention several other masters, who, they claim, exercised an influence upon his work, and it is obvious that to the Sienese school generally he was indebted for many decorative methods, particularly in the use of gold and gilded gesso.
On the 9th May 1808 she became Carey's wife; and in May 1821 she too was removed by death in her sixty-first year, after thirteen years of unbroken happiness. Charlotte Emilia, born in the same year as Carey in the then Danish duchy of Schleswick, was the only child of the Chevalier de Rumohr, who married the Countess of Alfeldt, only representative of a historic family.
He also heard Sattianadem now a white-haired old man preach on the "Marvellous Light," and he felt that a great man had verily left his impress on these districts. Carey's second marriage was curiously different from his first. It was to a lady named Charlotte Rumohr, of noble extraction, belonging to a family of high rank, in the duchy of Schleswig.
She was buried the next day in the missionary burying-ground." About the same time that Carey himself settled in Serampore there arrived the Lady Rumohr. She built a house on the Hoogli bank immediately below that of the missionaries, whose society she sought, and by whom she was baptised.
The type of a Christian gentleman Carey and his first wife His second marriage The Lady Rumohr His picture of their married life His nearly fatal illness when forty-eight years old His meditations and dreams Aldeen House Henry Martyn's pagoda Carey, Marshman, and the Anglican chaplains in the pagoda Corrie's account of the Serampore Brotherhood Claudius Buchanan and his Anglican establishment Improvement in Anglo-Indian Society Carey's literary and scientific friends Desire in the West for a likeness of Carey Home's portrait of him Correspondence with his son William on missionary consecration, Buonaparte, botany, the missionary a soldier, Felix and Burma, hunting, the temporal power of the Pope, the duty of reconciliation Carey's descendants.
The separate rooms to the right grew into the press; farther down the river was the house of the Lady Rumohr who became Carey's second wife, with the great paper-mill behind; and, still farther, the second park in which the Serampore College was built, with the principal's house in which Carey died, and a hostel for the Native Christian students behind.
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