This may well have been written out of financial need.
Immel, Andrea. “A Christmass-Box. Mary Homebred and Mary Collyer: Connecting the Dots”. Childrens Books History Society Newsletter, No. 94, Dec. 2009, pp. 1-4.
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The copy surviving at UCLA
spent more than two centuries in the Ludford Box, a family collection of children's books from several eighteenth-century...
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Anna Brownell Jameson
The book's full title was A First or Mother's Dictionary for Children:containing upwards of three thousand eight hundred words which occur most frequently in books and conversation: simply and familiarly explained, and interspersed throughout with...
JOF
's studies at Chambéry, Rome, Paris, Venice, and Perugia had given her a taste for life in other countries. She and her family spent four years in Portland, Oregon...