. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "56015825"^^ . . . . . "Reading Abbey Girls' School, also known as Reading Ladies\u2019 Boarding School, was an educational establishment in Reading, Berkshire open from at least 1755 until 1794. Many of its pupils went on to make a mark on English culture and society, particularly as writers. Most famous is Jane Austen, who used the school as a model of \"a real, honest, old-fashioned Boarding-school\"."@en . . . . "Emma"@en . . . . "18050"^^ . . . . . . . . . . "Jane Austen"@en . . . . "1083716774"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Reading Abbey Girls' School, also known as Reading Ladies\u2019 Boarding School, was an educational establishment in Reading, Berkshire open from at least 1755 until 1794. Many of its pupils went on to make a mark on English culture and society, particularly as writers. Most famous is Jane Austen, who used the school as a model of \"a real, honest, old-fashioned Boarding-school\"."@en . . . "Reading Abbey Girls' School"@en . . . . . . "Mrs. Goddard was the mistress of a School \u2014 not of a seminary, or an establishment, or any thing which professed, in long sentences of refined nonsense, to combine liberal acquirements with elegant morality upon new principles and new systems \u2014 and where young ladies for enormous pay might be screwed out of health and into vanity \u2014 but a real, honest, old-fashioned Boarding-school, where a reasonable quantity of accomplishments were sold at a reasonable price, and where girls might be sent to be out of the way and scramble themselves into a little education, without any danger of coming back prodigies. Mrs. Goddard\u2019s school was in high repute \u2014 and very deservedly; for Highbury was reckoned a particularly healthy spot: she had an ample house and garden, gave the children plenty of wholesome food, let them run about a great deal in the summer, and in winter dressed their chilblains with her own hands. It was no wonder that a train of twenty young couple now walked after her to church. She was a plain, motherly kind of woman, who had worked hard in her youth, and now thought herself entitled to the occasional holiday of a tea-visit."@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .