Greville, and subsequently Sir William Hamilton, had taken great pains to educate Emma Hart.  Hamilton writes to his nephew:  “I can assure you her behaviour is such as has acquired her many sensible admirers, and we have good man society, and all the female nobility, with the Queen at their head, show her every mark of civility.”  Hamilton writes further:  “Hitherto, her behaviour is irreproachable, but her temper, as you must know, unequal.”  Lady Malmesbury (with a decidedly sly scratch) says of her:  “She really behaves as well as possible, and quite wonderfully, considering her origin and education.”  Sir George Elliot says:  “Her manners are perfectly, unpolished, very easy, but not with the ease of good breeding, but of a barmaid; excessively good-humoured, wishing to please and be admired by everybody that came in her way.  She has acquired since her marriage some knowledge of history and of the arts, and one wonders at the application and pains she has taken to make herself what she is.  With men her language and conversation are exaggerations of anything I ever heard anywhere; and I was wonderfully struck with these inveterate remains of her origin, though the impression was very much weakened by seeing the other ladies of Naples.”  A naval lieutenant at Naples stated he “thought her a very handsome, vulgar woman.”  There is no stabbing with a sneer about this opinion.  It expresses in a few words the candid opinion of the sailor.  Mrs. St. George thinks her “bold, daring, vain even to folly, and stamped with the manners of her first situation much more strongly than one would suppose, after having represented Majesty and lived in good company fifteen years.  Her dress is frightful.  Her waist is absolutely between her shoulders.  Her figure is colossal, but, excepting her feet, which are hideous, well shaped.  The shape of all her features is fine, as is the form of her head, and particularly her ears; her teeth are a little irregular, but tolerably white; her eyes light blue, with a brown spot in one, which, though a defect, takes nothing away from her beauty or expression.  Her eyebrows and hair, which, by the bye, is never clean, are dark and her complexion coarse.  Her expression is strongly marked, variable, and interesting; her movements in common life ungraceful, her voice loud, yet not disagreeable.”  This female critic seems to have been overburdened with the weight of Emma’s defects, mental and physical!  Elliot says:  “Her person is nothing short of monstrous for its enormity, and is growing every day.  Her face is beautiful.”  The latter view tones down the apparent desire not to say too much in her favour.