While most schools and formal education opportunities were aimed at boys, Regency era girls also received an education aimed at preparing them for their future lives. The question is though, just where did a young lady acquire her accomplishments?
Continue reading →The public schools of Austen’s day bore little resemblance to what we expect of public schools today.
Continue reading →Today, children spend a great deal of time in formal schooling, so much so, it is hard to imagine childhood without it. But in the early 1800’s, formal schooling was far from a given for many children.
Continue reading →Most gentlemen were sent to public boarding schools to prepare them for university. These schools bore little resemblance to public schools today. Public schools were public in the sense that boys were taught in groups outside of their private homes, not in the sense that these institutions were funded by public funds. A number of public schools existed, but the landed elite in particular chose to send their sons to a select number of these … Continue reading →
A gentleman’s education set him apart from lesser men, even in his early life. What did that education look like? In all well-regulated states, the two principal points in view in the education of youth, ought to be, first, to make them good men, good members of the universal society of mankind; and in the next place to frame their minds in such a manner, as to make them most useful to that society to … Continue reading →
