"I remember upon my having a Fit of Illness, my Mother, who was apprehensive of my Death, and consequently, thro' excessive Fondness, us'd all Means to prevent it that lay within her Power, sent me to Thorly, in Hertfordshire, the Seat of Dr. Hales, an eminent Physician and Relation, with a Design not only to restore and establish my Health, but with the Hopes of my being made a good Houswife; in which needful Accomplishment, I have before hinted, my Mind was entirely uncultivated."
A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke
See <u>A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke: (Youngest Daughter of Colley Cibber, Esq.)</u> (London: Printed for W. Reeve; A. Dodd; E. Cook, 1755). &lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004842197.0001.000">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;