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PGCJ.769.012
1 Jul 1769:11 (286)
The Fatal Indifference: Or, the Interesting History of Mrs.
Matilda Markham.
Printed from her own manuscript.
. . . I was therefore instructed at an early period in
French and Italian, was taught all the fashionable needle
works that keep a young woman regularly employed, without
answering anyone purpose of real utility, and made such a
mistress of the harpsicord before I attained my fourteenth
year, that I was considered by the connoisseurs on this
instrument as a King of musical miracle: Add to all these
accomplishments, that I sang with some voice, and much
taste, danced with remarkable grace, and possessed a person
which was the incessant object of general adulation.
. . . He fancied that the knowledge of a language or two
would necessarily give me good sense, and believed the turn
of my disposition must be right, and because I sung
prettily, and made a figure at my harpsicord . . . [2 1/2
more columns of her biography illustrating how her education
was her bane.]
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