Note 262 — Chapter II · LEARNED LADIES IN ENGLAND FROM 1650 TO 1760 (continued 3)
Reading edition
Hearne's Collections, vol. VI, p. 255. Mr. Rowe Mores said that Miss Elstob had once had a genteel fortune, but that she had "pursued too much the drug called learning, and in that pursuit failed of being careful of any one thing necessary."