Thomas Weeton married EW's mother in 1770. They were poor, and he told her that he hoped that his children would be financially viable sons, not daughters who must become either mop squeezers, or...
Family and Intimate relationships
Ellen Weeton
EW's father was killed in a battle with an American ship; she later graphically described her grief.
Weeton, Ellen, and John Joseph Bagley. Miss Weeton’s Journal of a Governess. Editor Hall, Edward, Augustus M. Kelley, 1969, 2 vols.
1: 8; 2: 401
Family and Intimate relationships
Ellen Weeton
EW's father, Thomas Weeton, was born in 1748 at Scale Hall, Kirkham, Lancashire.
A family geneaology written by EW's brother, Thomas Richard Weeton, provides different dates; but it does not seem...
Textual Features
Margaret Oliphant
This novel relates to her earlier Hester, 1883 and Joyce, 1888. Kirsteen's brutal father (who has been manager of a slave plantation, and goes as far as killing to impose his will on...