ABSTRACT

[‘My Very Particular Friend’ first published in The Comic Offering; or Ladies’ Melange of Literary Mirth, for 1834, ed. Louisa Henrietta Sheridan, London, Smith, Elder and Co., 1834, pp. 12–14; ‘A Governess Wanted’ first published in Maria Abdy, Poetry, 8 vols, London, J. and W. Robins, 1838, vol. 2, pp. 21–23. 1