How Jane Austen Survived Boarding School *Plus Georgian Era Gossip*
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- What was Jane Austen's education like? Well, learn all about the author of Pride and Prejudice's two experiences at 18th century boarding schools. And discover where she may have found inspiration for Northanger Abbey and Emma. Also, hear the gossip about her teacher's lives. dramatic stuff went down in the 1780s
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🕰 Watching Guide
00:00 Jane Austen's Education [Intro]
00:53 Mrs Cawley's School & Almost Dying
02:55 Reading Abbey Ladies Boarding School
04:27 Mrs La Tournelle Wasn't Really French
06:34 Miss Pitts Dramatic Backstory
09:02 Mrs Goddard's School in Emma
11:06 Daily Life in Georgian Era School
14:02 Jane's Lifetime of Learning
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Sherwood, H., & Kelly, S. M. (1857). The Life of Mrs. Sherwood. Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication.
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I read a lot of letters written by girls who attended boarding schools during the nineteenth century for my dissertation research and while each girl has a different experience the one thread that runs through their letters are requests for their parents to send them snacks. Truly relatable.
I went to boarding school in the 90s. Still the same 🤣🤣🤣
I wrote the very same thing to my parents when they sent me away to summer camp, LOL!
😂😂😂
Is it avaitable somewhere on the net ?
@@candle5676 Not yet, as it isn't finished, but hopefully someday!
The town ‘Reading’ is pronounced like red. As in RED-ing.
I love Ellie so much, but that was murdering me. 😆
I was laughing because I live in Reading, and yes i'm going to say REE-ding from now on just to drive my family nuts lol
English towns are not pronounced as they are written 😂
Bicester - bister
Harwich - Harrich
Leicester - Lester
Leominster - lemster
To name a few 💖
I came to the comments to look for this! 🤣
@@lealea88
American towns are not much better. Pontchartrain du Detroit is now known only as "dee troyt", Lincoln is just link-on, and they do this for whole states! Arkansas? No! Arkan-saw! Madness! :p
The housekeeper is sometimes more than a housekeeper but their different social classes prevent them from going public.😊😊😊 This was a great episode, thank you!!!!
That's my guess too
as someone who attends a private all girl school i can 100% confirm we all jump at the mention of boys in school
Damn how do you deal with the drama 😂
Ok, your first book needs to be about that poor parlor boarder and how she ultimately finds her happy ever after. 😀😀😀
The book I was thinking of was the relationship between Misfits Uncle and his housekeeper in how that even came about. So maybe approval to the book about miss Pitts in how she overcomes this change in circumstances
Little Princess, What Katy Did at School, Harriet Smith in Emma, kinda Jane Eyre
Tbh illnesses still rip through boarding schools, we just don’t tend to die of these things anymore. At one point at my school there was this stomach bug going round that was so infectious some lessons were cancelled because over half the class were off sick. We also had a mumps epidemic which really sucked. And like 50 kids got symptomless COVID last year in spite of social distancing (thankfully I was long gone by that point).
Immunity though.
@@slidenapps What do you mean?
You should be vaccinated for mumps....
@Ericat257 I was but loads of other kids weren't cos of that stupid "vaccines cause autism" nonsense that started up around about the time I was born.
It's prounced "Red-ding" even though it is spelled "Reading."
That’s interesting! Thanks for letting me know.
@@EllieDashwood British pronunciation is like that...Leicester, Worcester or Gloucester are also not read the way you might think it is read. :) Welcome to the world where english is not your first language! :)
I've lived in the UK for 15 years and place names still sometimes trip me up. 😂 My personal favourite is "Magdalene College" here in Cambridge which is pronounced "maw-dlin." Definitely "rehh-ding" despite it obviously looking like reading. :)
@@krististewartelliott1813 My favorite remain Worcestershire sauce. :)
@@krististewartelliott1813 ye I often do a double take with Gloucestershire and a couple others I cannot think off the top of my head.
I see another commenter has mentioned that Reading is pronounced Redding, and the Abbey School is still there. It's not a boarding school any more, but it is an independent (that is, a private) girls school still. I'm from Reading originally.
I live in Reading. Abbey School is still going but it has moved about a mile away. Reading Prison, where Oscar Wilde served out part of his sentence, is right next to the Abbey, but the other side. King Henry I was also buried near by. I did not know about the boys' school, but those are the Forbury Gardens you showed and there is a Valpy Street close by.
That’s so interesting! I wonder if Valpy street was named after him!
I have a french last name, passable french (not good, but not bad enough to offend a native speaker) and know how to draw and sew and embroider and crochet. I'm the schoolmistress now 🤭
Imagine if you stopped going to school when you were in 5th or 6th grade. That would be more or less what Jane Austen did. You would miss out on so much school. What a different world.
That’s such a good point!
@@EllieDashwood Love your videos. Interesting AND entertaining!
After that, they were largely self taught in
their fathers extensive library. similar to
the Bronte Sisters a few decades later
& further N .
However, in Europe. there were the odd
advanced level schools that taught girl +
women students. like Salerno Medical.
School inn of Italy, which opened in late 700s or early 800s + taught both men +
women!! N of Italy also had University of
Padua (?), a full school for both men +
women, founded in 1000+?
Later, in English colony of Virginia, someone founded College of William +
Mary in 16?!00s?
Later, in Spain, in 1700s, 1 king opened
Spain s universities to women students----+ professors!! (That only lasted during his reign--- Spanish women had to wait another 200 years to return to 1700s situation.)
Why did these + other similar situations
occur, seemingly way ahead of their
times??
I love how you tied in your personal experiences with the historical experiences of Jane Austen. It brought a lot of the things you were talking about to life. I laughed out loud when you talked about a boy coming to an all girls school-so true!!
I once went to a kind of summer political “leadership” camp called Girls’ State (there was also a Boys’ State) and yeah girls everywhere. All the teachers were female, everyone! There were often talks of trying to sneak out and run into some Boys State boys. The desperation was real.
Yes, not a boarding school, but yes...when the boys high school let out the boys were like flies on the sidewalk and the girls were rolling up the waistband of their uniform skirts. Sadly I lived in "the country" and had to hop on the big school bus to get home
You just know Jane and Cassandra were getting mobbed by the other girl for details after going out for dinner and they're just exasperated, "They're just BROTHERS, they tease relentlessly and they have not even the table manners of a trained bear."
I had a friend who went to an all girls boarding school during one of her years in high school, and she loved it. I think it would be a really interesting experience, if for nothing other than a change of scenery and to meet new people. So long as typhus is not an issue.... :P
I am currently going to a girls boarding school and they are definitely hit or miss
Great video! Maybe another possible topic for a future video could be early childhood during Regency (age 0-6). I´ve heard somewhere that parents even send their children away during those years so they wouldn´t be bothered. I wondered if Jane Austen went through the same?
Yeah it looks like she did! Apparently her mum did that with all her kids - packed each one off to a local wet nurse to basically be fostered by her family for a couple of years, then took them back once they were old enough to be 'manageable'. It was probably all kinds of awful for the poor kids but the Austens did seem to turn out ok. And I think people didn't quite get the concept of young kids having, you know, feelings and stuff back then! : ( Hell, the concept of 'childhood' as we know it I don't think was really a thing until the Victorian era, could be wrong there though.
Yes, I can't imagine what kind of relationship children have with their parents if the bonding was broken. Bunch of sociopaths.
I was sent to boarding school at age 8. It was not fun. It was not good. It was awful. And I recommend it to precisely no-one.
Don't send your kids to boarding school, folks! It messes them up for life!
Edit: Re: epidemics at boarding schools. At mine one kid came down with meningitis. She was deathly sick. The nurse told her to get up and quit faking.
Anyway so eventually she spent a long time in hospital, and when she came back her eyes didn't work right. Took a long time for her to fully recover.
Ha, this was interesting! I loved the Georgian era gossip. 😄
😂 So much drama went down in the Georgian era!
@@EllieDashwood who needs Gossip Girl! 😂
An interesting continuation about the Reading Abbey School: Mr. De St Quentin married Miss Pitts and they bought out the share of Madame de la Tournelle. The school did fine for a while but then financial troubles came. It's not really clear if this was because of Mr. De St Q's gambling or for other reasons. He was in fact very used to high life - before the French Revolution he used to be the secretary to the French ambassador in Englans, so apparenty an aristocrat. After closing the school in Reading, Mr. and Mrs. De St Q. moved to London and opened yet another school, a very successful one too. Lady Caroline Lamb actually studied there for some time, as well as Mary Russel Mitford (a Victorian poet, writer and playwright), as well as a number of other prominent Regency and Romantic authors and poetesses. The school was in 22 Hans Place, right opposite Hyde Park Corner, and in fact very close to where Jane Austen's brother Henry live in Sloane Street.
I used to use the title “Mrs.”, though I’ve never been married. My daughter attended the elementary school where I taught and I didn’t want anyone to treat her or me poorly because they were scandalized at me being a “Miss.”
Miss Pitt's story would make a fabulous novel. You could write a historical fiction novel about her with a young Jane Austen as a featured character.
About using 'Mrs.' when not married...a fun fact is that in Quebec, there is no equivalent of 'Ms.' in French, so if you're a grown woman you are just referred to as 'Madame' whether married or not. Mademoiselle is hardly ever used except maybe for teens and children. It always reminded me of the housekeepers and cooks in old novels.
I love this! please keep making videos about Jane's life :D
Lovely video! Lovely memories of yours❤️
The reminder to like gave me a good chuckle. I do always forget and appreciate it! Gently pats the like button.
Ellie, don't apologize! I loved all of your stories and bonus tidbits!!
I love all the tangents you do!! I crave the context and emotional grounding.
Please always add you own little anecdotes! They make it real!❤️
Oh, Ellie, I love your sense of humor! You're a really good lector, it's so nice to hear what you're talking about with such a joy and a deep interest in theme.
Loving your channel. You are making me love reading again. Thank you!
Yay!!! Thank you 😃
I'm actually very curious about Eliza Williams's fate as an unmarried young woman with a child. Like what would her life had been like? And would she have gone by Mrs. Williams, hiding under the guise of a young widow?
This was fantastic! One can never have too much Jane in one’s day ❤️😇 (And that second boarding school *does* sound like a rather nice place to be...)
It really does! I think that’s the school I’d want to go to if I was back then and had to go to school.
This is so weird, I was literally just reading about all the boarding school stuff in Claire Tomalin's biography of Jane lol! Fab video as always
Wow! That’s so cool and coincidental! 😃
Hi Ellie. I'm a fan form Italy. This video was really cool! So much much drama. Love your content. Cheers
Aw!!! Thank you. 😃😃😃 And that is so cool that you’re from Italy!
Several people in the comments said it already so I won't lecture you on how to pronounce *town name* Reading. The thing with town names in Great Britain is that it's quite random and doesn't keep to the rules of pronounciation applying to everything else. Don't ask me why, I have no faint idea and I'm also very confused by it.
Hmm...sounds like someone was doing more than just “housekeeping”, if you know what I mean. 😉
Oh my 😅 I have to admit...that was my first thought.
It was my second, but only because my first thought was already taken by the terrifying ghost of Wilkie Collins' Mrs Lecount :/
I agree, that is my theory until it will be cleared up :)
Thank you for another amazing video! This was super interesting! 😀
Yay! I’m so glad you liked it! 😃
@@EllieDashwood I did. Your videos taught me so much already. They are fun to watch while being still very informative. A great mix! 🙂 I cannot wait for the next one.
this is so interesting! and now I am off to watch the other video about regency era girl's education, because I don't know why but I missed it the first time :D
Aw, I hope you enjoy that one too!
@@EllieDashwood I did! thank you :)
I always wanted to go to a boarding school because my day school was so far from my house and I figured I’d have so much more time in the day without the commute but it was a girls’ school and you’re right about the “only boy in the village” thing. When boys from our brother school joined classes they got so much attention I felt sorry for them!
Upper crust families hired governesses to educate their daughters and younger children at home. That was thecase for Anne de Bourg in P&P, and EmmaWoodhouse in Emma, and remember that impoverished well educated women like Jane Faifax in Emma often became governesses in order to support themselves. The alternative was to send their daughters to boarding schools, as was the case with Anne Eliot in Persuasion.
In some 19th c. novels, perhaps based on reality. some very fortunate girls had parents who hired regular teachers, at
times , even university professors.
Your video is really interesting but I have to tell you that ‘Reading’ is pronounced ‘Redding’. Sorry that’s English for you 😆 ( I’m in the UK btw)
Was just going to make that comment! I am so used to "Reading" being "Redding" that I forget it's not obvious.
Yeah....
The funny thing is I watched a whole lecture on this topic given by a man from the UK and he probably pronounced it correctly, but I clearly didn’t pay attention to that. 😂 Sorry! It is funny how town names work.
It is pronounced that way here in the US as well. Sending from Reading (pronounced Redding), PA.
It's a nice place to visit and look around. There's a Roman ruin nearby as well (Silchester).
I'm pretty sure Reading (the town in England) is pronounced as if it were spelled Redding.
Also, Jane Austin's first boarding school experience sounds eerily like part of the plot of "Jane Eyre".
Hi Ellie. Just a quick note on pronunciation. Reading rhymes with Red. This spelling is only pronounced rhyming with Reed when describing the action of reading a book. Great informative content. I enjoy it.
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Maybe all my potential subscribers are busy time traveling and don’t have time to watch my videos. 😭
I found the brief description of daily routine at the school to be unexpected. I attended a parochial boarding school for all four years of high school. Our schedule was much fuller and our days--weekends included--apparently much more structured (but, thankfully, no dancing class). My admittedly limited reading of British society in the late 1700's to early 1800's implies strictness to the point of severity. What you presented undermines my previous perceptions. Interesting.
This video just got me through an abs workout. And maybe protected against thypus? 😂 Thank you!
Went to an all girl school, so no🤣 I still remember when they built the boy school next to ours and the buildings were connected by a door. The girls during break would pass notes with the boys under the door like lost lovers and I would laugh because it was so funny. During lunch though you better not have been on the stairs. It was like a buffalo stampede to get to the boys outside and if you were in the way, beware.
Hi! The captions are desynchronized. Luckily, you speak very clearly, so it's easy for me to follow (not my first language). Congrats on your channel!
Same here
I adore your little sweater, the color is especially nice on you too.
Or blouse? I'm watching this on my phone lol. Whatever your top is, it's cute ☺️
Oh, this is so funny. I live in a small European country and I'm now in my 20s. But 10 years ago I went to this really respectable high school. It was 220 years old at the time, it looks like a giant church, and while it wasn't all-girl, 95% of the student population was girls. Across this tiny little town square there was an exclusively-male school. And then occasionally we'd have joint events and mingle.
You think of Jane Austen's world as so far removed from your own... until it isn't. This just took me back to 10 years ago.
Lovely and informative video 👌🏻.
3:08 The town near London, where Jane Austen went next, may be spelled as 'Reading' - BUT it is pronounced in 🏴 as "Redding"✌🏻. 🇬🇧👋🏻
I was blessed enough to attend Linden Hall School for Girls in Lititz Pa..It is the oldest Boarding School in the United States 1746... Beautiful place to make forever friends
Doh, a deer, me, i name i call myself, Reading in Berkshire (Redding, Barkshire phonetic) not reading, my love. Keep it going. You're doing really well. What a topic.
The dancing master's little fiddle was known as a Kit or Pochette (as it could fit in a pocket).
Love your vids.
Aw, thank you!!! 😃😃😃
I´m Portuguese and I studied for 3 years in a nuns private school, between the ages of 11 to 14 years old and some students were boarding students and others were external students, meaning they both had students living in the school during class semesters or students that only went to classes and lived with their parents.
Believe me those were complicate times. Not only because those were my adolescent years with all the usual turmoil of the age, but to have to get used to only have girls classmates, a French teacher that forced us to call her madam, had skint eyes and seem to be looking to a student but actually was looking to other one and was very very severe, so we all had to have the best of the behaves in her classes. We didn't had uniforms but we had to use black gowns over our cloths witch i hated. After lunch we had to do a walk out nearby the school, witch usually was going to "visit" the cemetery, God knows why. 🤦♀🤷♀
i stayed as a board student for 2 weeks while my mother was out of the city, i loved the experience of sleeping in a dormitory with other girls, but hated the long study hours we were forced to oblige. Sometimes during lunch times i used to hide on the class craft room to read Harlequin Romances, until I was caught by one of the nuns and as a punishment had to help in the kitchen for 2 months. The school had a garden with both flowers and fruit trees. Some of my classmates would climb the plum trees and get plums while no one was checking on us. Sadly @ the time i was to scared of climbing trees so i'd kept watching for lookers while they do it. 😅😇 like everything in life i do have good and bad memories of those times.
And i end my rambling. 🤣😂
I was raised in USA and it was also pronounced Redd-ing Massachusetts. Also think it is " was run " not "was ran"
But love your channel , thanks for great info 🤗
I went to a women's college in the US that was founded in 1869, and I went to a "ghost tour" once where a historian who had studied the school told us about every person who had ever died on campus, and there were a number that died in the infirmary from various epidemics. (Also, yes, every time a man showed up on campus, they practically had to mop the floor to get rid of all the girls' drool.... lol)
can we get a q and a with you discussing this volunteering story? because that was hilarious to hear
I probably enjoyed this video most in many respects. The Reading anecdotes (pronounced Redding) were well chosen as Anne states quite baldly that though learning little it didn't interfere with her intellect, so the time spent was pleasant rather than educative. Then you played your trump card, the affect a boy would have in the competitive environment of a group of girls in their early teens.
Ms. Dashwood, can you do a video about Admiral Austen, Jane's brother?
I love her Juvenilia so much! Its perfect for when you need a laugh
Used to teach at an all girls school (not boarding) but yeah they go a little crazy when there is a guy
why was i thinking of Jane eyre throughout this vid-
Jane Eyre went to the awfullest school. 😭
@@EllieDashwood She really did it was heartbreaking to read 😭
I was thinking about the Smolny school for noble girls in St. Petersburg. Though the school itself was a very classy one and many of the graduates later became ladies-in-waiting of the Romanov emperor family, still for some reason food tended to be not really awesome, and I still wonder why...
I loved school from kindergarten through college.
The parlor boarder sounds like that Shirley Temple's movie Little Princess.
Yes! Temple's Little Princess is based off of Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic book The Little Princess that has the main character as a parlor boarder!
@@EllieDashwood took the words right out of my mouth lol i love that book
Talking about the girls and boys schools makes me think of What Katy Did at School and the interactions they had with the neighbouring school
In the 2 previous sources I have found of this incident they said that he left everything to his mistress who was also his housekeeper.
That’s super interesting!
Hey, I'm actually from Reading and it actually pronounced more like Red-ing (red as in the colour). Great video though!! 😂
Thanks for the interesting video as always! FYI, I think Reading, England is pronounced like the color red. Red-ing.
Thanks!
@@EllieDashwood Six months later...l reside in Pennsylvania and we have a city Reading "Redding" 🤣Just started watching your channel and LOVE it! Historical fiction is my favorite to read 📚 not "red" 🤣 anyhoo, great videos!
The typhus was brought back home by sailors decomissioned in Gibralter.
@Ellie Dashwood, what is the name of the classical strings piece at the end of your video?
I just looked it up. Apparently it's called: String Quartet No. 12 In F Major, Op. 96, B 179, 'American III. Molto Vivace
It's funny to me that the girls' boarding school experience has some similarities with those of conscripted soldiers in their barracks. There we would call the phenomenon "NATO-goggles" and I swear that you could *smell* women. (It's a nice smell, don't get me wrong.)
Of course, our accomplishments focused somewhat less on learning French and spelling, and more on other matters, but it's funny that there were these differences.
The title was meant way more literaly than I thought it would be.
The town Reading is pronounced redding in England. 🤗
This was really interesting to learn Ellie.
Are you going to be looking into the stories that Julia Quinn has written. Starting with the bridgerton series?
Yay, I’m so glad you enjoyed it! 😃 Unfortunately, I’ve looked into Bridgerton before and don’t think it’s something I’d enjoy. So I probably won’t be covering it on this channel. But I think it’s had the positive effect of people being so much more interested in this time period! Which is awesome. 👍🏻
Bridgerton is crap.
@@EllieDashwood I enjoyed reading the Bridgerton´s books, but never saw the Netflix series.
Just a note Reading is pronounced reding, because english place names are like that.
I believe there are cases of older women in higher classes than governesses etc that were referred to as Mrs.
Who knew... 9 year old would never have imagined that this would be history. Or I wonder if she actually thought we'd be talking about it after 200 years.
I feel like boarding school in that era really was a crap shoot and I'm not so sure I would have been excited to chance it
😭 It really is so true. I wonder how many parents never got their daughters back alive too.
And all those books and other works of art that never existed because the person who would have created them died of typhus ?... ^^'
Our Jane Austen made it, though barely, which makes me wonder how many other talented people died before they were able to accomplish anything...
What I've heard about modern English boarding schools isn't much better.
@@quaesitrix881 Or if Jane Austen hadn't been just rich enough and poor enough to be able to write books at all. Married to a rich guy and producing babies, she wouldn't have had much opportunity, and he might forbid her to write. Poorer, and she might not have had enough education or leisure time.
Mrs. Patmore on Downton Abbey
1:13 the official Side Hustle for the respectable Georgian widow
Reading is only 2 hours from Steventon by bike according to Google maps. I imagine it was different in Jane's day, but it wouldn't have been more than 3 hours to and from in a carriage/ pony and trap.
the town of Reading is pronounced 'redding' ! 😊
13:02 I have never heard norw of a truth than this 😂
Went to an all girls’ high school - yep 🤣
I attended a two year women's college (Cottey College), before transferring. I confirm that girls got excited when guys were on campus. Sadly, creepy guys no one knew were drawn to the school. Some local girls viewed us as competition, even trying to run my classmates over when crossing the street. (It's in a small town and the campus has 2 crosswalks.)
All those comments about "housekeeping", while my first thought was :
*dramatic music*
"Could it be...
... Mrs Lecount ?!?"
*TADADZAAAM!*
(Alright alright... Actually, it was more : "Could it be... ... err... wait, what was her name again ? Oh I am terrible with names... Let me look it up quickly... wait what was the name of the book again ?... Or the names of the other characters ?... Oh crap... Please stand by, dramatic music, this might take a while...")
I might have forgotten her name, and the name of the other characters (Sister Number One and Sister Number Two ?), and the name of the book (really, what kind of title is "No Name" ? >_
This is 2021 and words like Mlle and Mme and Miss and Mrs still have their weight. Unfortunately.
In English it's less striking, but in French and Spanish, waiters/random strangers started addressing me as madame or senora rather than the younger versions when I was in my late 20s. Again, a respect thing, it seems, more than an assumption about marriage.
@@joelledurben9854 in Italy now using the equivalent of Miss is considered sexist and also old fashioned, so if people want to be respectful they will use ‘signora’ no matter how young you are/look
So basically this Domenique is a real life Mr Wickham?
7:52 HE and Miss Pitts hit it off.
Dear mam, The town Reading is pronounced 'redding'. I am English/British and I have known this for decades!
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This boarder school sounds like the best place ever.
When watching the movies or reading the books you don't think about the body lice that were prevalent back then.. ICK!
2005 led me to 1995. And i love 1995 more than 2005… still never read the book. Lol
It's read as "Red-ing" not "Read-ing". I know, it took me ages to get used to it and I live here.
The town in Berkshire is pronounced "Redding" not "Reeding".
I am wondering if you want to say Reading as "Redding?"
I've heard it said both ways, I think. I think it's Redding in Pennsylvania. 😊 Comment? 😊
I wonder why the Bennett girls didn't have a governess. Of course that wouldn't work for the story and it means that I'm mistaking a story for real life.
at which age could you be sent to a boarding school? could you go there if you were in your 20s?
It was a school. You had to be a schoolchild. So under 18, and realistically under 16 in this period. A woman in her 20s would be married, not in school.