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The silliness and shallowness of the boarding school is an equally constant ...

The silliness and shallowness of the boarding school is an equally constant topic of Victorian satire, but, like the boys' schools, they were of all degrees.

Brownian’s aunts had an admirable establishment at Black heath, and Alan Eliot was excellently taught at her Coventry boarding school. London was ringed with such institutions, through which the drawing-master and the music-master wearily circulated on foot from Battersea over the river to Cheswick and up by Acton to Hampstead and High gate.

Below the boarding-school class was that unfortunate stratum just too high to make use of the charity school, the National school or the British Day.

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For them there was rarely anything better than a superior dame's school ...

For them there was rarely anything better than a superior dame's school in a parlour or a very inferior visiting governess. That the education of girls, as codified by ei

'I want', said Bella Rokesmith to her husband, 'to be something so ...

'I want', said Bella Rokesmith to her husband, 'to be something so much worthier than the doll in the doll's house.' In t

For the few unmarried there was a small annuity, or dependence as ...

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