Dorothea Mozley

By Thomas's marriage in late September 1836, Anne became sister-in-law to Harriett Mozley , née Newman...

In April the same year her sister Jemima had married his brother John; in May their mother had died. Harriett hesitated over Tom's proposal, but accepted it by July.

Her letters, on the evidence of those included in Dorothea Mozley 's Newman Family Letters (published by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge in 1962), are highly intelligent and entertaining. As a girl she rattles...

The earliest letter of HM included by Dorothea Mozley in her edition is dated 23 July 1821.

The bank where John Newman was a partner collapsed when his daughter Harriett (later HM ) was barely in her teens; though he found other work, the family fortunes never recovered and he was declared...