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10 "It was not long before my father had as many scholars as he could find time to attend. And when they assembled at my father's to make little concerts, I was frequently called to join the second violin in an overture, for my father found pleasure in giving me sometimes a lesson before the instruments were laid by, after practising with, for I never was missing at those hours, sitting in a corner with my knitting and listening all the while." Here, as in all her writing, is simple, true, direct to awkwardness, and unconsciously pathetic even in joy.

The family of and  consisted of ten children. Six of these lived to adult age. They were:

1. ; born 1733, married, a musician in the Guard, by whom she had children. Five of her sons were afterwards musicians at the court, in England, where they obtained places through the influence of.

2. ; born 1734, November 20.

4. (the astronomer); born 1738, November 15.