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chgoange's review
3.0
I haven't finished this peculiar memoir yet, however, I must include this quote that seems to epitomize upper class, Victorian parenting. Augustus Hare's godmother made an offer to his birth mother to take Augustus off her hands and raise him as her own. To which his birth mother replied, "My dear Maria, how very kind of you! Yes, certainly, the baby shall be sent as sooned as weaned; and if anyone else would like one, would you kindly recollect that we have others."
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