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Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester.
Dec 30th [1866?]

MS Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas. C. R. Coleridge Collection

Madam,
The school that I should think more likely to answer your purpose would be St Michael’s, Bognor, which is under the Provostship of Mr Woodward who has done so much for education – I cannot tell what the terms are but I know they are on a less expensive scale than those of schools equally good as education goes, and the doctrine is thoroughly high – The person to address for information is

The Lady Warden
St Michael’s
Bognor

Miss Lowden – Frome Selwood and Miss Parkinson at Brighton have excellent schools, but the terms are high.

Miss Bell
Winnington Hall
Northwich

has a school on a very large scale, where young ladies receive an excellent education on moderate terms. In fact it is the locality of Ruskin’s Ethics of the Dust and I believe he is often there, though I do not know whether that is a recommendation. The Author of Mabel’s music lessons is musical governess there1

Yours truly
C M Yonge

1‘Aunt Cecily’s music lessons,’ addressed to her niece Mabel, appeared in MP (July 1866-July 1869). The 1871 census indicates that the music teacher at Winnington Hall was then Elizabeth Flowel or Howel (b. Hampshire 1847/8).
Cite this letter


The Letters of Charlotte Mary Yonge(1823-1901) edited by Charlotte Mitchell, Ellen Jordan and Helen Schinske.

URL to this Letter is: https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/yonge/2142/to-an-unknown-woman-14

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