TY - BOOK AU - Foster,Hannah Webster TI - The Boarding School; Lessons of a Preceptress to Her Pupils: 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 AV - LC PY - 2017/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Women -- Education -- Early works to 1800 N1 - 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 N2 - "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.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55558 ER -