19th Century Nitty-Gritty: Time to Enroll at Ye Old Boarding School

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19th c NG, Week 2由梅丽莎·雷纳

上周,我们有很多的乐趣搞清楚我们怎么会无疑满足我们demises在你们老十九世纪。这一周,我想提出的东西只是一点点少病态的,因为它很难让读者参与,而不寄送希望偶尔输液。

So I found this image of a Dumbledore doppelganger, and my inner geek got very excited. If you’re anything like me, the Harry Potter series made you daydream not just about being a wizard, but also about attending boarding school. Well, since our time travels are already pretty magical, today I’d like to take you back in time to a nineteenth century boarding school.

准备?因为在这里,我们走!

我想问你首先要考虑寄宿学校可能看起来像什么,它将如何运作,通过时间来开始我们的旅程,它的成本,整个事情。当我们出去,把自己在这两种预期父母和年轻学生的地方。想不光你会喜欢什么,而且你会希望你的后代是什么。

Now, the first school we’ll be visiting today is an all girls’ school led by the judicious Mrs. Williams. And her mission?

花卉

“要培育扩大花”是这一代的女性。你有没有想过你自己或你的女儿作为扩大花的?似乎有点...深远

While the sentiment may be odd, the language is beautiful. Perhaps this place has a great literature program. Let’s take a look at the curriculum.

domestic

My, it is wordy, isn’t it? Skimming, skimming. “Dormant virtues, sense of decorum and propritey.”嗯。“孝,德,仁,审慎,经济的原则。”嗯。嗯。Whoa, what’s this part about the main purpose being to domesticate these girls and qualify them for a private life? What ever happened to the staples of Reading, Riting, and Rithmetic?

I don’t think this school is for us.

Next up we have “The Sandwich Collegiate Institute.” Oh, that sounds fantastic! Let’s look at their curriculum straight away. We don’t want to be lured in by flowery language. What we need is the facts.

研究过程

We can major in “social life”? All right, I’m hooked! What’s this going to cost me?

cost of an education

只有30块钱!?卖!

呵呵,不过等一下。下面是指责寄宿学校生活在学生严重的健康下降的文章。他们说,一个年轻的女孩,谁是以前的健康状况良好,只是在一个月的住所后,从学校回来,“从全身无力,神经痛痛苦折磨,眩晕和头痛。”他们说,她每天的日程安排,这是“积极的杀气”惹的祸。下面是这个时间表的样子:

滋扰

The article goes on to say:

This system of education takes young, robust, romping girls, and transforms them to slow, languid, pale, worthless women. To acquire skill on the piano, a little bad French, and a namby-pamby knowledge of a few of the “English branches,” they sacrifice health, energy, all capacity for the duties of womanhood,而不是生活不频繁本身。我们的情况下,处方上的这些言论是建立,是的,当然,一个简单的 - 留在家中,并公开放弃寄宿学校。

Are you second-guessing our enrollment? Me too. Why did we even decide to matriculate in the first place?

Oh, right, Harry Potter. Well, maybe we can spare ourselves the experiential knowledge and just read a novel on the matter. I hear “The Boarding-school Girl” is good.

这是19世纪的答案,哈利·波特?在寄宿学校的女孩:由L. C.夫人塔海尔
这是19世纪的答案,哈利·波特?点击阅读的寄宿学校的女孩:由L. C.塔海尔夫人。

参考:

  1. 福斯特,汉娜。The Boarding School; Or, 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波士顿:由一,托马斯和E. T.安德鲁斯,1798的印刷。十九世纪在线收藏。网页。2014年9月8日。
  2. 弗里曼,弗雷德里克和查尔斯·惠廷伍斯特。The Sandwich Collegiate Institute : a boarding school for boys and missesBoston: Printed by S.N. Dickinson & Co., 1845.萨宾美洲,1500年至1926年。网页。2014年9月8日。
  3. “寄宿制学校滋扰。”Buffalo Medical Journal12.3(1856):182+。十九世纪在线收藏。网页。2014年9月8日。
  4. Tuthill, Louisa Caroline, Crosby, Nichols, and Company, and Metcalf and Company.在寄宿学校的女孩:由L. C.夫人塔海尔第8版。波士顿:克罗斯比,尼科尔斯和有限公司,1855,c1848。十九世纪在线收藏。网页。2014年9月8日。
  5. “年轻女子寄宿学校。”Woman’s Journal1872年6月15日:191。十九世纪在线收藏。网页。2014年9月8日。

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