[1] Sir James Pennyman, 6th Baronet employed the Rhodes during the later 1770s as a governess to his daughter.
In 1812 her youngest daughter, Hannah, died painfully following her dress catching fire.
In 1829 she published her "Memoirs" which are the basis of her biography and they also give an insight into the temptations offered to a single woman.
[1] The book includes details of Hannah's death and some of her late husband's poetry.
[1] She married an itinerant preacher named Benjamin Rhodes who had been born in 1743 in Mexboorough.