Excerpt from The Woman of Honor, Vol. 1 of 3: Letters Bring Things More Home, and Represent Them More to the Life, Than Either Annals of Lives

But as in my last I only summarily mentioned the circumstance of her going to London, it is now very fit to acquaint you more at large of the necessary particulars relating to her past: and present circumstances: In favor of preserving the chain of which, you will readily excuse my mentioning certain facts already abundantly known to you.

Her father, the learned Dr. Maynwaring, dying about eleven years after his marriage with the daughter of a country gentleman, left her a widow with two children, Esther, and Clara.

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