Original sentence: In later life she became somewhat eccentric, perhaps suffering from dementia, driving her donkey cart into the sea to wash the animal and having to be rescued by a local fisherman.Thomas Mortimer was a widower with two young daughters, one of whom died young and the other suffered from mental illness and was institutionalized much to Favell’s distress
Edited sentence: Meyer, Mrs (Louisa), The Author of the Peep of Day Being the Life Story of Mrs Mortimer by her niece Mrs Meyer.She developed her own method of teaching children to read based on an early kind of 'flash cards' rather than the traditional horn book.She travelled extensively visiting friends and relations and eventually suffered from a series of strokes, becoming increasingly frail and dying at Runton with family and friends around her.The Religious Tract Society, London, 1901.Thomas Mortimer was a widower with two young daughters, the elder of whom died young and the other suffered from severe depression necessitating long periods away from her family, much to Favell’s distress