Sophia Charlotte Looker was another of Jemima Looker's sisters from the Newbury family tree. She was born in 1848 and, as was common for young girls at that time, she was clearly taught needlework skills at an early age. The sampler shown below was embroidered "in her 8th year", in 1857. It is in reasonable condition considering its age, with one or two small holes in the fabric and faded colours.

The text has been taken from a book by Mrs Alice Flowerdew, "Poems, on moral and religious subjects", which was published in 1803. These lines appear in the second verse of a poem entitled" Address to my daughter, on entering her seventeenth year". The full text is available on-line.

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