To Casssandra, from Steventon, "Lizzie Bond is just apprenticed to Miss Small, so we may hope to see her able to spoil gowns in a few years." - Jane Austen, Saturday 1-Sunday 2 December 1798
Lizzie Bond was John Bond's youngest daughter. John Bond was Reverend George Austen's farm bailiff at Steventon. Elizabeth, "Lizzy" was born in 1782, so she would have been fifteen or sixteen when this letter was written.
Miss Small was a dressmaker, probably in Overton.
It does not seem as though Lizzy Bond made dressmaking a career as she married Joseph Beale of Overton, at Steventon, in 1809.
I hope you enjoyed your day today!
Terrie
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