Pets and Personality
She kept a variety of exotic pets - including marmosets, parriquets, love-birds, cockatiels, canaries and avadavats. Thomas Hodgkin notes that whilst her sister Caroline was prone to sarcasm, Anna Maria always had an optimistic and less critical attitude to other people.
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