Excerpt from Five Years of Youth: Or Sense and Sentiment
Alas! Very many who appear to suppose that, in common circumstances, they may be content with acommon character. It is possible that, in reading books like the following, not only motherless daughters may be interested by a narrative which comes home to their feelings; but that some who have mothers may be roused to such reflection, to such comparison of their own situation and character with those of others, as may be of no little benefit to their afl'ections. Such, at least, is the cfl'ect of the comparison in actual life, of which it is the highest ambition of this little work to be a faithful tran.
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