Frances Hoare

During her early years at Edgeworthstown, ME 's chief friends and correspondents were Fanny Robinson (later Hoare) , whom she had met at Mrs Devis's school, and her aunt Mrs Ruxton (her father's sister) and...

ME 's early letters to her friend Fanny Robinson are earnest and priggish. By the 1790s she was sending the Ruxtons letters which have literary merit in themselves (mixing amusing anecdote and expressions of affection)...

ME visited her old schoolfriend Fanny Hoare and her husband Charles in Roehampton near London.