![]() ![]() ![]() It is not just the ‘thank God’ and the nipples. This letter, written by Lady Caroline Fox to Emily, Duchess of Leinster about their sister Sarah is, in parts, so blatantly modern that it is hard to believe that it is dated 6 June 1769, and that it is almost 225 years old. It was ill from being kept from the breast for so long, but now it has a good clean nurse, sucks, sleeps and thrives.’ The nursing scheme would not do she had quantities of milk, which makes one regret the more that it would not do, but her nipple could not be drawn out without the greatest difficulty, and the child not being strong could not do it. ‘SALLY’S FEARS FOR her little one are, thank God, over. She reviews for the Sunday Times and is a frequent contributor to Radio 4.Ĭitizen Lord: Edward Fitzgerald 1763–1798įor Deborah Colvin and Allen Martens, who encouraged meĬaroline, Emily, Louisa and Sarah Lennox 1740–1832 ![]() Stella Tillyard’s bestselling Aristocrats, which started the vogue for eighteenth-century women’s lives, was followed by Citizen Lord, her biography of the Irish rebel Edward Fitzgerald. ![]()
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