The Consisting of Information, Instruction and Advice, Calculated to Improve the Manners and Form the Character of Young Ladies. To Which Is Added, a Collection of Letters, Written by the Pupils to Their Instructress, Their Friends, and Each Other Foster, Hannah Webster 1759-1840 creator text utu 2017 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "The Boarding School; Lessons of a Preceptress to Her Pupils" by Hannah Webster Foster is a novel published in 1798. Set at the fictional Harmony Grove school, the work presents Mrs. Williams's final lessons to her graduating students on topics ranging from reading and writing to dress and friendship. Through narrative instruction and subsequent letters exchanged between former students, Foster explores the ideal education for young women entering society, revealing period attitudes about proper behavior and female accomplishment. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boarding_School;_or,_Lessons_of_a_Preceptress_to_Her_Pupils Release date is 2017-09-16 Produced by Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) Original publication data not identified Women -- Education -- Early works to 1800 LC Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55558 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55558 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134259.0 55558