teacher, was probably born in London. She came to Sydney with her father, James Rennie, and her brother Edward Alexander in 1840. The men opened a College High School at 6 Elizabeth Street while Rennie opened a day school for young ladies at the same address. She advertised late in 1841 that 'the greatest attention will be paid to Music, Drawing, Ornamental Work, Languages, and other Fashionable accomplishments’, and claimed to have 'received a most expensive education in France, Prussia and England’. A later advertisement promised that 'on fixed days, the young ladies will be taken out to gardens to learn Botany, and to the fields to Draw from Nature’. The first excursion of this type took place in January 1842.
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- Date written:
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- 2011
