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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Vacation evenings, or, Conversations between a governess and her pupils: with the addition of A visitor from Eton: being a series of original poems, t

Vacation evenings, or, Conversations between a governess and her pupils: with the addition of A visitor from Eton: being a series of original poems, t

Bayley, Catharine

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ISBN10: 9353609844
ISBN13: 9789353609849
Publisher: Alpha Ed
Published: Apr 28 2019
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.51 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Step into the quiet theatre of the schoolroom, where questions are met with stories and play is turned to principle. Lessons arrive in gentle voices. In Volume III of Catharine Bayley's Vacation Evenings, a governess guides her pupils through a moral tales anthology designed to sharpen judgement as well as imagination. The book moves with ease between a poetry and prose collection: original poems, short tales, and reflective essays, set within governess and pupil dialogues and stitched with illustrative quotations from writers ancient and modern. The tone is bright but purposeful, offering virtue and character lessons on duty, kindness, self-command, and the everyday choices that shape a life. An added sequence, A Visitor from Eton, brings in Eton schoolboy stories that widen the view beyond the girls' lesson table, balancing domestic counsel with public-school ideals. Rooted in 19th century British reading culture and the manners of Georgian era England, Bayley's schoolroom moral instruction sits beside the tradition of Maria Edgeworth moral tales, part of the didactic childrens literature that helped form family standards and youthful taste. Today it remains a classic homeschool reader and an absorbing family read aloud book: thoughtful, varied, and gently challenging. Dip in for a single tale, or follow the conversations as an evening companion, with language still lucid for modern readers at home or in class. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint -- a collector's item and a cultural treasure.

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