Note 21 — EPISTLE. TO MISS HONORA SNEYD, MAY 1772. WRITTEN IN A SUMMER EVENING, FROM THE GRAVE OF A SUICIDE.[21]
Reading edition
This spot is known to the inhabitants of Lichfield by the name of Bessy Banks’ Grave. When the author walked thither, in the year 1791, she found the two trees, which stood on each side the tumulus, had been recently cut down, and deplored a devastation which she almost fancied sacrilegious.