Ladies Hall

Ladies Hall, Deptford, London was the first English girls' school.[1] It was founded in approximately 1615 by Robert White.[2][3] It was for aristocratic girls, and they performed before Queen Anne 4 May 1617.[4][5] They taught basic reading and writing in English, and probably other skills a lady was encouraged to acquire, in music, dance, and needlework.

I. A. Shapiro doubts the existence of Ladies' Hall as a school, believing that it may simply have been where the young gentlewomen attending Queen Anne's ladies-in-waiting were housed, and that the ladies there had joined together to perform a play.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Women in early modern England, 1500-1700 by Jacqueline Eales
  2. ↑ Transatlantic dame school?: Anne Bradstreet’s early poems as pedagogy by Elizabeth Ferszt, Ph.D.
  3. ↑ http://www.ferris.edu/htmls/colleges/artsands/langandlit/bradstreet/transatlantic_dame_school.pdf
  4. ↑ Drayton's Muses Elizum: A New Way over Parnassus
  5. ↑ . JSTOR 513709. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  6. ↑ Review of English Studies, p.472-473, (1970) XXI (84)


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