- Apr 2024
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My Papa and Mama’s great indulgence to me leaves it to me to choose our place of residence either in town or country, but I think it more prudent as well as agreeable to my Mama and self to be in the country during Father’s absence.
I think her audience is a family member or close friend by the way she uses Mama and Papa instead of like Mother or Father. Its significant because again shes talking about making her own choices and basically being on her own. There were other sentences in the letter that make it seem as if she is living alone.
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But least you should imagine it too burdensome to a girl at my early time of life, give me leave to answer you; I assure you I think myself happy that I can be useful to so good a father, and by rising very early I find I can go through much business.
I think this is written to a friend or a family member maybe. I think its significant because shes talking about how she can be happy and do everything herself without anybody's help. She mentions again being a girl at her early age of life. By this she is inferring that she is still young.
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But least you should think I shall be quite moped with this way of life I am to inform you there is to worthy ladies in Charles Town, Mrs. Pickney and Mrs. Cleland, who are partial enough to me to be always pleased to have me with them, and insist upon making their houses my home when in town and press me to relax, a little much oftener than ’tis my honor to accept of their obliging entreaties.
Eliza is writing this again considering its a letter she wrote. Shes talking to her audience about how shes gonna be quite upset with a new way of life thats shes gonna experience. Shes talking about someone offering her to move into her house.
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I wrote you a former letter we had a fine crop of indigo seed upon the ground, and since informed you the frost took it before it was dry.
Eliza wrote a former letter to her audience of whoever shes talking to. In the sentence shes talking about writing a former letter to someone about crops and them getting destroyed.
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Dobrusee, whose life was despaired of by the wounds he received
What exactly were the wounds he received that were so life threatening that he passed away? Were his wounds from a person? If so did they use something to give him these wounds?
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to the poorer sort.
The ones who are less fortunate than her. She lives a different richer life than everyone else.
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I have a little library well furnished (for my papa has left me most of his books) in which I spend part of my time
From the beginning I was under the impression that this was a little girl. I'm starting to second guess that because what little girl has a well furnished library of her own?
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Throughout her life she shrewdly managed her money and greatly added to her family’s wealth.
What was she doing to add to her family's wealth? If she was managing HER money then she has to be doing something that's earning her money. What is she doing?
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