*_The Female Vagrant_.
I find the date of this is placed in 1792 in contradiction, by mistake, to what I have asserted in 'Guilt and Sorrow.' The correct date is 1793-4.

The chief incidents of it, more particularly her description of her feelings on the Atlantic, are taken from life.
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*_Guilt and Sorrow; or Incidents upon Salisbury Plain_.

[VIII.] Unwilling to be unnecessarily particular, I have assigned this poem to the dates 1793 and 1794; but, in fact, much of the Female Vagrant's story was composed at least two years before.

All that relates to her sufferings as a soldier's wife in America, and her condition of mind during her voyage home, were faithfully taken from the report made to me of her own case by a friend who had been subjected to the same trials, and affected in the same way.