Letters to Correspondents, Volume Three [EHC/165b]

This volume of letters charts Miss Weeton's move from Liverpool to Dove's Nest in the Lake District.

During this period she also visits Southport and Chester. She continues her observations on the people and places she comes into contact with; she describes Liverpool as containing 'as much proportionate ignorance as any little village in England' and Wigan as 'that place of mental barrenness where ignorance and vulgarity and there their boast, and literature has scarcely dawned'.

On the position of women 'I would not be understood that woman is superior to man...I would only affirm that they are equal.' In December 1809 she takes the position of governess cum companion to a Miss. Pedder, of Dove's Nest about twelve miles beyond Kendal; this part of the diary contains a vivid description of the death and lying in of Miss. Pedder.