England -- Social life and customs -- 18th century -- Fiction; Epistolary fiction; Essays
LETTER the FIRST
From a MOTHER to her FREIND.
My Children begin now to claim all my attention in different Manner
from that in which they have been used to receive it, as they are now
arrived at that age when it is necessary for them in some measure to
become conversant with the World, My Augusta is 17 and her sister
scarcely a twelvemonth younger. I flatter myself that their education
has been such as will not disgrace their appearance in the World, and
that _they_ will not disgrace their Education I have every reason to
beleive. Indeed they are sweet Girls—. Sensible yet
unaffected—Accomplished yet Easy—. Lively yet Gentle—. As their
progress in every thing they have learnt has been always the same, I am
willing to forget the difference of age, and to introduce them together
into Public. This very Evening is fixed on as their first _entrée_ into
Life, as we are to drink tea with Mrs Cope and her Daughter. I am glad
that we are to meet no one, for my Girls sake, as it would be awkward
for them to enter too wide a Circle on the very first day. But we shall
proceed by degrees.—Tomorrow Mr Stanly’s family will drink tea with us,
and perhaps the Miss Phillips’s will meet them. On Tuesday we shall pay
Morning Visits—On Wednesday we are to dine at Westbrook. On Thursday we
have Company at home. On Friday we are to be at a Private Concert at
Sir John Wynna’s—and on Saturday we expect Miss Dawson to call in the
Morning—which will complete my Daughters Introduction into Life. How
they will bear so much dissipation I cannot imagine; of their spirits I
have no fear, I only dread their health.
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