Note 180 — LETTERS FROM MY AUNT ELEANOR [180] TO HER DAUGHTER SOPHIA, AND A FRAGMENT FROM MY AUNT’S DIARY.
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My aunt Eleanor was thought to be a bit of a pagan by the evangelical part of our family. My mother when speaking of her to me used to say, “Your heathen aunt.” She was well-educated, but the better part of her education she received abroad after her engagement, which took place when she was eighteen years old. She was the only member of our family in the upper middle class. Her husband was Thomas Charteris, junior partner in a bank.