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1819. Ladies’ Lit. Cabinet, 7 Aug., 99/3. Miss Bentick fully felt the impropriety of their appearing unchaperoned at a public assembly.
1846. Mrs. C. D. Burdett, Walter Hamilton, III. iii. 86. An act of politeness in which she was imitated by all the ladies who continued their scrutiny till the unchaperoned girl was ready to sink with confusion.
1858. Miss Mulock, Th. ab. Women, 33. Anxious mothers, who would not for worlds be guilty of the indecorum of sending their daughters unchaperoned to the theatre or a ball.
1886. Miss Braddon, One Thing Needful, vii. She was willing … to allow her daughter to stroll across the fields unchaperoned.
