JB
opens this work with a nostalgic glance backward at about sixty-six years of political thinking and literary writing. Her dedication To the Ladies is immensely engaging. She takes up the story of Galesia, now...
Textual Features
Jane Warton
Scholar David Fairer
has identified JW
's contribution, from its style, as Adventurer no. 87. This essay, later entitled Politeness a necessary auxiliary to knowledge and virtue,
Reid, Hugh. “Jenny: The Fourth Warton”. Notes and Queries, Vol.
continuous series 231
, No. 1, Mar. 1986, pp. 84-92.
87
is in fact an entertaining piece...
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1686: Madame de Maintenon founded, in a nunnery...
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1686
Madame de Maintenon
founded, in a nunnery at St Cyr near Paris, a school for impoverished noble girls. Closed with other convents at the Revolution, the institution re-opened in 1808 as a school for...
