ABSTRACT
Newspaper advertisements and prospectuses of the period are enlightening. It was necessary to explain, for example, in an advertisement for a Mrs Taylor’s school in Elysium Row, Fulham, that ‘the strictest attention is paid to [the girls’] morals, and care taken that amusement should be blended with tuition’.1 The prospectus for a school in Paris, artfully drawn up to attract pupils from England, labours the same point. ‘Whatever concerns religion is conducted by an elderly nun who takes [the girls] every Sunday to the parish church, and nothing is neglected for the preservation and purety of the mind…. The care of extreme cleanliness is over looked by the governess and teachers themselves, Who sleep in the dormitaries and never loose sight of their pupils.’2
