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The Lively Lady Townshend and Her Friends: An Effort to Set Forth the Doings ... - Page 8
by Erroll Sherson - 1927 - 314 pages
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The Lady's Magazine: Or, Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex ...

1829 - 696 pages
...judgement, as by her remarkable affection for her husband . Speaking of her childhood and youth, she says, " It is necessary to say something of my mother's education...time afforded, both for working all sorts of fine works with my needle, and learning French, singing, lute, the virginals, and dancing. Notwithstanding...
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The Westminster Review, Volume 11

1829 - 574 pages
...often, she caused her servants to supply that place.' — pp. 25. 29. Of her education she says, ' Now it is necessary to say something of my mother's...time afforded, both for working all sorts of fine works with my needle, and learning French, singing, lute, the virginals and dancing, and notwithstanding...
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Memoirs of Lady Fanshawe, Wife of Sir Richard Fanshawe, Bart., Ambassador ...

Lady Anne Harrison Fanshawe - 1830 - 360 pages
...his son sixteen hundred pounds a year in land, and gave his daughter above twenty thousand pounds. Now it is necessary to say something of my mother's...time afforded, both for working all sorts of fine works with my needle, and learning French, singing, lute, the virginals and dancing, and notwithstanding...
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Memoirs of Lady Fanshawe: Wife of Sir Richard Fanshawe, Bart., Ambassador ...

Lady Anne Harrison Fanshawe - 1830 - 362 pages
...land, and gave his daughter above twenty thousand pounds. Now it is necessary to say something of ray mother's education of me, which was with all the advantages...time afforded, both for working all sorts of fine works with my needle, and learning French, singing, lute, the virginals and dancing, and notwithstanding...
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Memoirs of Eminent Englishwomen, Volume 2

Louisa Stuart Costello - 1844 - 436 pages
...threatened to terminate so fatally, devoted herself to the education of this beloved child, who had " all the advantages that time afforded, both for working all sorts of fine work with my needle," — which she places in the first rank of accomplishments, — " and learning French, singing, and...
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Tales of female heroism

Tales - 1846 - 248 pages
...had health, and when that failed, as it did often, she caused her servants to supply that place." " Now it is necessary to say something of my mother's...time afforded, both for working all sorts of fine works with my needle, and learning French, singing, lute, the virginals, and dancing ; and, notwithstanding...
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Sketches of English Literature from the Fourteenth to the Present Century

Clara Lucas Balfour - 1852 - 458 pages
...seventeenth century. "Now it is necessary for me to say something of my mother's education of me, which wa3 with all the advantages that time afforded ; both for working all sorts of fine works with my needle, and learning French, singing, lute, the virginals, and dancing ; and notwithstanding...
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The Book of Noble Englishwomen: Lives Made Illustrious by Heroism, Goodness ...

Charles Bruce - 1875 - 636 pages
...pleasant with her laughter and song. Her mother superintended her education, which, we are informed, 'was with all the advantages that time afforded, both for working all sorts of fine works with my needle, and learning French, singing, lute, the virginals and dancing ; and notwithstanding...
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The American Journal of Education, Volumes 1-24; Volume 26

Henry Barnard - 1876 - 972 pages
...— such * TMi Memoir wu lint printed in 1829. In raped to her own borne training the write« : — 1 Now it is necessary to say something of my mother's...education of me, which was with all the advantages the time afforded, both for working all sorts of fine work with my needle, and learning French, singing,...
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The American Journal of Education, Volumes 1-24; Volume 26

Henry Barnard - 1876 - 902 pages
...euch * Tliis Memoir wu first printed in 1829. In respect to her own home training the writes : — 'Now it is necessary to say something of my mother's...education of me, which was with all the advantages the time afforded, both for working all sorts of fine work with my needle, and learning French, singing,...
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