Mary Cathcart Borer (1906-94) was a prolific novelist, playwright and non-fiction author. She worked as a museum curator and archaeologist early on in life, but rose to prominence as a screenwriter for children's films and television plays in the 1940s and 1950s. After this she focussed on non-fiction writing, covering subjects from King Alfred the Great to the Boer War alongside historical studies of various London boroughs. She wrote numerous books on British social history, including The British Hotel Through the Ages.

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• 1. Introduction2. Before the Norman Conquest3. Medieval England4. Tudor England5. The Early Stuarts and the Commonwealth6. The Restoration7. More Advice to the Girls8. The Charity Schools9. The Decline of the Charity School Movement10. Precept and Practice11. More Eighteenth-Century Boarding Schools12. Women Learned and Romantic13. Into the Nineteenth Century14. The Nineteenth Century15. Miss Buss and Miss Beale16. Education for All17. And Now?Books ConsultedIndex

Mary Cathcart Borer (1906-94) was a prolific novelist, playwright and non-fiction author. She worked as a museum curator and archaeologist early on in life, but rose to prominence as a screenwriter for children's films and television plays in the 1940s and 1950s. After this she focussed on non-fiction writing, covering subjects from King Alfred the Great to the Boer War alongside historical studies of various London boroughs. She wrote numerous books on British social history, including The British Hotel Through the Ages.

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• 1. Introduction2. Before the Norman Conquest3. Medieval England4. Tudor England5. The Early Stuarts and the Commonwealth6. The Restoration7. More Advice to the Girls8. The Charity Schools9. The Decline of the Charity School Movement10. Precept and Practice11. More Eighteenth-Century Boarding Schools12. Women Learned and Romantic13. Into the Nineteenth Century14. The Nineteenth Century15. Miss Buss and Miss Beale16. Education for All17. And Now?Books ConsultedIndex

Mary Cathcart Borer (1906-94) was a prolific novelist, playwright and non-fiction author. She worked as a museum curator and archaeologist early on in life, but rose to prominence as a screenwriter for children's films and television plays in the 1940s and 1950s. After this she focussed on non-fiction writing, covering subjects from King Alfred the Great to the Boer War alongside historical studies of various London boroughs. She wrote numerous books on British social history, including The British Hotel Through the Ages.

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• 1. Introduction2. Before the Norman Conquest3. Medieval England4. Tudor England5. The Early Stuarts and the Commonwealth6. The Restoration7. More Advice to the Girls8. The Charity Schools9. The Decline of the Charity School Movement10. Precept and Practice11. More Eighteenth-Century Boarding Schools12. Women Learned and Romantic13. Into the Nineteenth Century14. The Nineteenth Century15. Miss Buss and Miss Beale16. Education for All17. And Now?Books ConsultedIndex