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Letter from a London publisher on city manners and family decline
A lengthy epistolary plea from a worried father criticizes urban vanity and "city roots" corrupting his daughters Tabitha Femima Bertha Hildrum and Dorothy. He laments noble values eroded by pleasures, recounts domestic misfortunes, and urges public warning through the publisher while contrasting virtuous labor with merriment and fashion.
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City Roots
London
Westminster
Tabitha
Femima
Bertha
Hildrum
Dorothy
Alderman Broadbottom
Theo
Doubtles
Hids-Pam
Oglestrump
Andrew
Magdalen House
Dodd
Duke of York
Eithor
Rome