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private income which Mr. Turner's annuity placed at Hannah More's disposal set her free from the obligations of the school, and enabled her to gratify her longings to behold a larger, fuller world than that of Bristol,— Yearning for the large excitement that the coming years would yield, Eager-hearted as a boy when first he leaves his father's field.

Her letters are undated, but it must have been in 1772 or 1773 that she first plunged into the new life of London, when she was twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old. These were the days when the evils of the Court of George II. had not become unfashionable, in spite of the influence of George III. and Queen