31a SOPHIA (W FEMALE EDUCATION. Jaly 6, 



Sophia's fourth letter to the Editor of the Bee, on the 

 fuhjeEl of the Education of young Ladies. 



Sir 



I AM charmed to think that my artlefs defcription of 

 the mode of eduration T adopted for my daughters, has 

 given any fatisfaclion to the public, and that my com- 

 munications fhould have been in any degree ferviceable 

 to your pu'olication, which I truly admire, and fhould 

 be happy to promote. * 



When I had advanced fo far as I have dcfcribed in 

 my laft letter, with the ed\ication of my Alathea, I 

 found her firter growing up to profit by the fame mode 

 of inftruftion, which I adminiftered, and was fuccefsful. 

 Two of the clergyman's daughters continued in my aca- 

 demy (as I may fo fay) day fcholars, and a niece of my 

 hufband's was my boarder ; fo my fchool confuted of 

 fix, and I did equal juftice to them'all. 



Being fortunately capable of giving my young ladies 

 a learned education, I did not fail to give them every 

 inflruction that youths of the other lex receive at the 

 fame age : in grammar, in the languages, and in the 

 fciences, in the belles lettres, and in the beaux arts. 

 "While I was thus happily and profitably engaged, we 

 received a vifit from an old maiden lifter of my huf- 

 band's, who was rich, and from whom Eugenius had 

 confiderable expeftations for his family. The day after 

 Mrs. Grizzel's arrival, Ihe was prefent at my inflruc- 

 tion of the children, with which Ihc feemed not to be 

 difpleafed ; but after tea in the afternoon, flie opened 

 pretty fully to me on the fubjcft of her difapprobation 

 of the plan 1 had adopted. Siiler, laid Ihe, you have got 

 a very numerous family indeed, and have brought up- 

 on yourfelf a great deal of trouble, for which I wifhyou 

 may be rewarded according to your especiation j but 1 



