 In her letter to Brontë in June 1848, Taylor provides social commentary on lower class and middle-class women, writing, "Mrs Taylor Miss Knox and Mrs Logan sat in mute admiration while we mentioned these things, being employed in the meantime in making a patchwork quilt.Did you ever notice that the women of "middle classes" are generally too ignorant to talk to?, and that you are thrown entirely on men for conversation?There is no such feminine inferiority in the lower.