A school for girls in Windsor.(Articles)

By James I's reign, as the nobility, gentry, and well-to-do middle classes increasingly felt the need to educate their daughters in certain accomplishments of polite society, one begins to find references to schools established for this purpose, particularly in the neighborhood of London. One of the earliest references is to the Ladies' Hall at Deptford in 1617. These schools seem to have been often run by married women. The curriculum could include reading, writing, music, dancing, needlework, and, especially after Charles I's marriage to Princess Henrietta Maria, French. Other opportunities for female education among the upper classes existed as well. It was still ...