EW
's mother
died, aged fifty-one, leaving her to struggle alone with poverty and drudgery.
Weeton, Ellen, and John Joseph Bagley. Miss Weeton’s Journal of a Governess. Editor Hall, Edward, Augustus M. Kelley, 1969, 2 vols.
1: 25; 2: synopsis
Family and Intimate relationships
Ellen Weeton
EW
thought her parents an unusually happy couple. Her mother, Mary (Rawlinson) Weeton
, was the daughter of a Preston butcher and had travelled in southern England while working as a lady's maid.
Weeton, Ellen, and John Joseph Bagley. Miss Weeton’s Journal of a Governess. Editor Hall, Edward, Augustus M. Kelley, 1969, 2 vols.