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Mary Elizabeth Braddon (4 October 1835 - 4 February 1915), Milly Darrel(serialised in Belgravia November 1870 - January 1871), here taken fromMilly Darrel and other stories Asher's Collection Emile Galette Paris1873
1873.
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A. ASHER & CO., PUBLISHERS,
1873.
I was just nineteen years of age when I began my career as articledpupil with the Miss Bagshots of Albury Lodge, Fendale, Yorkshire. Myfather was a country curate, with a delicate wife and four children, ofwhom I was the eldest; and I had known from my childhood that the daymust come in which I should have to get my own living in almost theonly vocation open to a poor gentleman's daughter. I had been fairlyeducated near home, and the first opportunity that arose for placing meout in the world had been gladly seized upon by my poor father, whoconsented to pay the modest premium required by the Miss Bagshots, inorder that I might be taught the duties of a governess, and essay mypowers of tuition upon the younger pupils at Albury Lodge.
How well I remember the evening of my arrival!—a bleak dreary eveningat the close of January, made still more dismal by a drizzling rain