The Autobiography of Mary Smith, Schoolmistress and Nonconformist, A Fragment of a Life (1892), extract

[…] After I had been at home some two months, my studies were agreeably interrupted by my younger brother, George, ¹ then unmarried, who had been successful in business, and who was, in fact, the very reverse of myself in most things, proposing to take me, with a party of other friends, to see the Great Exhibition of 1851. At the same time, he generously said I need not think anything about the expense, as he would pay everything. My father and mother ² both urged me to accept the proposal, knowing that he had the means to do it.