Date: 1776

"I know not why, but my spirits are uncommonly low at present, there is no nostrum for a mind diseased, and therefore your kind wish for your suffering friends is vain."

— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)

Date: 1778, 1779

"I yield, therefore, to the necessity which compels my reluctant acquiescence, and shall now turn all my thoughts upon considering of such methods for the conducting this enterprize, as may be most conducive to the happiness of my child, and least liable to wound her sensibility."

— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)

Date: 1778, 1779

"I must be divested, not merely of a filial piety, but of all humanity, could I ever think upon this subject, and not be wounded to the soul."

— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)

Date: 1778, 1779

"But I will not dwell upon a subject which almost compels from me reflections that cannot but be wounding to a heart so formed for filial tenderness as my Evelina's."

— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)

Date: 1778, 1779

"Lord Orville, with an air of gravity that wounded my very soul, then wished me good night."

— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)

Date: 1777, 1780

"He made but little reply; but the impression sunk deep into his rancorous heart; every word in Edmund's behalf was like a poisoned arrow that rankled in the wound, and grew every day more inflamed."

— Reeve, Clara (1729-1807)

Date: 1777, 1780

"It is easy for men in your situation to advise, but it is difficult for one in mine to practise; wounded in body and mind, it is natural that I should strive to avoid the extremes of shame and punishment."

— Reeve, Clara (1729-1807)

Date: 1782

"Her heart, deeply wounded of late by unexpected indifference, and undeserved mortification, was now, perhaps, more than usually susceptible of those penetrating and exquisite pleasures which friendship and kindness possess the highest powers of bestowing."

— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)

Date: 1782

"The revival of this early connection delighted them both, it was balm to the wounded mind of Cecilia, it was renovation to the existence of Mrs. Charlton."

— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)

Date: 1782

"The journey was melancholy and tedious: Mrs. Charlton, extremely fatigued by the unusual hurry and exercise both of mind and body which she had lately gone through, was obliged to travel very slowly, and to lie upon the road."

— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)