 The title page of "The Stepmother" describes her as living in Charleston, South Carolina; she "seems to have been a Loyalist who later served as a governess in London".Robert became a successful bookbinder, bookseller, and then a printer for "The South-Carolina and American General Gazette" in 1758.Robert was considered an outspoken and inflexible Loyalist, he and his family moved to London in 1777.