A young woman is sitting in a chair with a tapestry in a frame in front of her, trying to be distracted from the thought of her forced marriage. Engraving by W.H. Simmons, 1840, after J.H. Nixon.

An episode in the story 'The tapestried chair' by Mrs. S.C. Hall, in Forget me not, loc. cit. In the story, Edith works into a tapestry floral designs by Count Albert de Waldheim. She wishes to marry him, but her father forces her to marry Edward de Lacy. On the eve of her wedding (p. 356): "Unable any longer to assume a cheerfulness foreign to her heart, she requested leave to seclude herself in her own apartments till the dreaded hour. Her father granted the request, and a new stimulus was given to her pride by the absence of all effort on Albert's part to prevent its execution; but it was in the seclusion of her own room that she felt the extent of her wretchedness. Many were the efforts which she made to regain her composure; abandoning the care of her bridal attire to her women, she endeavoured to employ herself, but her favourite tapestry served only to remind her of him who had designed the patterns, and the materials fell from her hands as she sat motionless before her work.". The tapestry is subsequently incorporated into a chair (p. 359): "When you go into Yorkshire to visit your uncle, you will see a portrait of her, painted at her husband's desire, where she is sitting listlessly before the frame, and musing on the destiny which she then thought so miserable, and when she vainly sought to subdue that affection which formed the happiness of her after-life. I do not mean to say that such trials of a daughter's obedience are necessary, or even to be defended; but such were the manners of the times in which she lived, and she has always been handed down to her descendants as a beautiful proof of filial obedience, and which I never yet saw unattended by most of the other high virtues."