... the family was wealthy and they wanted their daughter(s) to being educated, governess was hired to teach girls. If they were lucky, they were taught to read in order to study the Bible. They were also taught to read and write to record household expressions. Sometimes girls were taught social etiquette, music, needlework, cooking, and nursing. Usually they were just taught ... necessary and was not able to cover some core concepts. Some of the classes Beecher taught her students include philosophy, chemistry, ancient and modern history, geography, grammar, rhetoric, arithmetic, algebra,...

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