Miss Taylor

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A teacher of many disciplines, Miss Taylor operated a school for young ladies on George Street, Sydney, from 1834 after arriving from England.
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teacher, came from England to New South Wales and advertised in the Sydney Monitor in August 1834 that she was about to open a select school for six young ladies, 'unless one or two Families of distinction should be disposed to engage her exclusively to instruct their daughters in any three of the following Branches of Useful and Polite Education, viz. – Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, English, French, Italian, German, Globes, Geography, Euclid, Music, and Drawing’. On 8 October she advertised that she still had vacancies for two day pupils and one boarder. The school was apparently operating the following year, Miss Taylor having taken premises in George Street, opposite Jamison Street, in late December.

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Date written:
1992
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2011

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