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Grata's narrative of love desperation and ruin in London
A letter recounts a young woman’s ruin after an affair with Mr F, yielding shame, poverty, and estrangement from family. She details deceit, a planned marriage, then abandonment to seek help, facing hunger and threats, ending with a chance meeting hearkening to a past parish curate, and a plea for publication to aid others in similar plight.
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Mme
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C. Grata