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      MRS . Sheppard ' s father was a merchant in London ^ of considerable property , who lost his all by shipwreck . She was brought Up in the tenderest manner till she vvas 14 years old , when she was obliged to go out in the capacity

      of a wai ' ting-maid to a Mrs Hughes , who insisted on her going down stairs backward , when lighting her from her room , being a very proud woman . About the

      year 1708 , an amiable young man , without fortune , conceived a great regard for her , but though mutual , a matrimonial connection

      was discouraged , as there was not a sufficiency on either side to support a family . He went abroad : but at length Providence sent him , hy the death of ai > uncle , a . good fortune , which he wrote her word

      w and expressed Iris joy in it on no other account than as it promised to remove every difficulty out of the way of their mutual happiness . On his return , he foil ofa f evcr , which proved mortal . On O this sorrowful occasion , she wrote an affecting letter to the

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      Editor of the Spectator , inserted Vol . II . No . 163 , Thursday , Sept . 6 , 1711 ; and induced the moving story of Constantia and Theodosius , No . 164 . Mrs . S . was some time govorness in the family of an English .

      Merchant in Sweden , but not being well used by his wife , she returned to England , and became a waiting-woman to Lady Vane , She afterwards kept a day school at Ipswich was sometime private teacher to the Miss Burward ' s of

      Wood bridge , ( Mrs . ' Harmcr , of Waltesfield , was one of them , ) and lastly , Matron to the Foundling Hospital in London ; in which situation she remained but one week , owing to the machinations of some interested person . This last failure of success fully convinced her friends that the cause

      of her not continuing long in place was not in herself alone , and therefore they allowed her twenty or twenty , rive pounds a-ycar . for life , and she took lodgings in Londo » where she died .

      Biography, Original Letters, &C.

      BIOGRAPHY , ORIGINAL LETTERS , &c .

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      No . XIV . ACCOUNT OF MRS . MARGARET SHEPPARD , WITH AN ORIGINAL # LETTER OF HER ' s FROM STOCKHOLM .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1809, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1737/page/1/