Lady Sarah Pennington 

Sarah Pennington, Lady (d. 1783). Her Instructions for a Young Lady, in Every Sphere and Period of Life. Containing, A Mother’s Advice to her Daughters (London, 1761) included the personally painful and publicly embarrassing exposure of her own marital failure with Sir Joseph Pennington of Water Hall, Yorkshire (c. 1760) and estrangement from her daughters, none of which Scott mentions in her lines. Pennington also published Letters on Different Subjects, in Four Volumes; Amongst which are interspers’dThe Adventures of Alphonso, after the Destruction of Lisbon (London, [1766]-67), and The Child’s Conductor (London, 1777).