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  1. Apr 18, 2023 · Born an army major’s daughter in India in 1946, in the last days of the British Empire, she was sent back to boarding school at the “paralysingly young” age of eight.

  2. May 1, 2021 · She was sent to boarding school in England from the age of eight, which she has said was far too young. After school she attended Lucy Clayton, the famous modelling and finishing school for posh girls, which led to her first job as house model for Duffy.

  3. She was sent to a different school not long after, and then brought home and never sent away again. Her father also took in young boys as boarders and educated them. Boarding schools for girls were called Ladies' Seminaries. They were usually run by single women.

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  4. May 9, 2016 · A boarding school education encouraged girls of ‘inferior’ rank – and their parents – to think that they could imitate the manners of their superiors and move up the social scale. If people did not remain in their allotted place, the whole edifice of society was at risk.

  5. Jan 3, 2020 · Between 1790 and 1870, girls in the US went from being illiterate to outperforming their male counterparts in schools; From false accusations that learning algebra would harm their reproductive capabilities to gendered classes, this is the tale of women in education

  6. May 15, 2021 · Because of this, parents who did wish their daughters to attend boarding school put a great deal of time and effort into choosing the right one. Most girls, however, were taught either in a schoolroom at home, at day schools, or later in the century by governesses.

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  8. May 1, 2015 · After India achieved independence in 1947, her family moved to Kent, England, where she attended Mickledene School as a boarder. Afterwards, she went to St Mary's Convent School in Sussex, and then studied at the Lucie Clayton Finishing School, after being turned down by the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art at the age of 16.