page_title: Selina Mills
section_title: The Bristol Elopement
hierarchical_section_title: Selina Mills / The Bristol Elopement
context_page_description: Selina Anne Mills was a school teacher who bought a girls school in Park Street, Bristol in December 1789 with her sisters Mary and Fanny, from Mary, Elizabeth, Sarah and Patty More, the sisters of Hannah More.
context_section_description: Selina got caught up in the elopement of Clementina Clerke, a wealthy heiress being educated at the school. Rowlandson's caricature is inaccurate: an accomplice posing as a servant delivered a letter to Selina purporting to come from Clerke's guardian requesting that Clementina take the carriage provided in order to go and see him immediately. Selina and Mary saw Miss Clerke into the carriage, but only later realised they had been duped.
caption: Caricature of the Bristol Elopement by Thomas Rowlandson
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