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Unfortunate Situation of Females, fashionably educated, and left without a Fortune.
I Have hitherto only ſpoken of thoſe females, who will have a proviſion made for them by their parents. But many who have been well, or at leaſt faſhionably educated, are left without a fortune, and if they are not entirely devoid of delicacy, they muſt frequently remain ſingle.
Few are the modes of earning a ſubſiſtence, and thoſe very humiliating. Perhaps to be an humble companion to ſome rich old couſin, or what is ſtill
worſe,
