The Journal of a Home Life Author:Elizabeth Missing Sewell General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1867 Original Publisher: Longmans, Green Subjects: Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations an... more »d there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER IV. June 12. Dernham Cottage. -- I have been so busy for the last few days that I have not been able to make any memoranda of what I have been doing. Since I came back from Ravenscroft, I have been settling myself at the cottage, superintending and ordering. Also I have engaged a new nurse, a Mary Drayton, who I hope and think will do well; only I am afraid she will consider me very particular. She cannot at all understand why I insist upon having Hugh dressed in Charley's room instead of in the nursery with Agnes ; and she thinks me a great fidget because I choose to have a screen put up in the night nursery, so as to make a kind of little dressing-room for Agnes, or at least to accustom her to the idea of privacy. Also I have had a battle with her, because I say that whilst the children are being dressed and undressed I will not allow anyone but myself to go in and out of the room. But these are points in which I am resolved to have my own way. If the children are to be refined and pure-minded when they are grown up, they must learn refinement and purity in their infancy, and the lesson can only be taught by practice. I choose to have them as particular in their behaviour in the nursery as they are in the drawing-room, and then, when left to themselves in after years, they will carry the same particularity into their bedrooms. And what a world of terrible evil may thus be avoided, one almost trembles to think ! Thi...« less