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A widowed chaperon recounts overseeing the courtships and marriages of her daughters and other young women, offering character sketches, social anecdotes, and reflections on love, etiquette, and maternal restraint. Through episodes set in town and country she observes flirtation, matchmaking strategies, family finances, and the awkward moral judgments demanded of a guardian, alternating gentle humor with sympathetic insight. The narrative blends practical advice and vivid portraits to illuminate how chance, decorum, and personal temperament shape romantic outcomes and female experience in fashionable society.

NOTICE.

The Proprietors of Circulating Libraries in all parts of the country are compelled by the new Copyright Act to discontinue purchasing and lending out a single copy of a foreign edition of an English work. The mere having it in their possession ticketed and marked as a library book exposes them to

A PENALTY OF TEN POUNDS.

By the new Copyright Act and the new Customs Act, even single copies of pirated editions of English Works are prohibited both in Great Britain and the Colonies. Copies so attempted to be passed are seized.

☞ These measures will be rigidly enforced.

Clara Cawse, pinx. G. Cook sc.

RECOLLECTIONS OF A CHAPERON.

Isabella looked surpassingly beautiful when bending over the marble basin, while she laughingly twisted dahlias into her hair.

London, Published by Richard Bentley, 1848

RECOLLECTIONS

OF

A CHAPERON.

EDITED BY

LADY DACRE.

LONDON:
RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET;
AND BELL & BRADFUTE, EDINBURGH.
1849.

London:
Spottiswoode and Shaw,
New-street-Square.

RECOLLECTIONS

OF

A CHAPERON.