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| ==== Boys' and girls' education ===== | ==== Boys' and girls' education ===== |
| Typically of the nineteenth century, the girls were educated at home. We know that the elder siblings and mother/stepmother acted as teachers as well as an unknown number of governesses and other specialist teaches at different times. In March 1866 Miss Medley was paid £4.6.8 'for tuition'. Music was seen as an essential part of a young lady's education, and later in the month, Mr Atkinson was paid £2.16.0 for 'Music lessons for Rosa and 3 pieces music'. In February 1867, Paul Atkinson was paid £4.4.0 for 'Rosa's music'. Virtually all upper middle class homes had a piano; the one at Maroon was tuned by Mr John Crump for £2.2.0 October [1866 or 67?] and there are further payments to him under 'salary', e.g. November 1867. In 1867 at least, the family also had a subscription to the Philharmonica Society((MLMSS 3117/Box 9, cheques))\\ | Typically of the nineteenth century, the girls were educated at home. We know that the elder siblings and mother/stepmother acted as teachers as well as an unknown number of governesses and other specialist teaches at different times. In March 1866 Miss Medley was paid £4.6.8 'for tuition'. It is possible that one of Matilda's family also taught them as there is an entry in November 1867 of Tom de M. M-P paying R. Harpur £4 'salary'.((MLMSS 3117/Box 9, cheques))\\ |
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| | Music was seen as an essential part of a young lady's education, and later in the month, Mr Atkinson was paid £2.16.0 for 'Music lessons for Rosa and 3 pieces music'. In February 1867, Paul Atkinson was paid £4.4.0 for 'Rosa's music'. In January 1868, noted Brisbane musician Madame Mallalieu, later [[wp>Henrietta Willmore]] was paid £2 for 'Rosie's music lesson'. Virtually all upper middle class homes had a piano; the one at Maroon was regularly tuned by Mr John Crump for £2.2.0 October 1866, November 1867, and there are further payments to him under 'salary', e.g. November 1867. In 1867 at least, the family also had a subscription to the Philharmonica Society((MLMSS 3117/Box 9, cheques))\\ |
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| In contrast, boys were sent away to school when still young. In 1862, Thomas de M. M-P and Morres attended 'Mr. Shaw's school, Brisbane' known as the Collegiate School - a Church of England school whose headmaster was the Rev. Bowyer E. Shaw. It was designed for 'sons of the gentry' and charged accordingly: £80 per year for boarders. Perhaps for that reason, it did not last long.((//The Brisbane Courier//, 17 February 1912, p.12)) We only know the two boys were there in 1862 because of a report in the newspaper that Tom won the prize for English and Morres the fourth class prize for Latin.((The Courier, 22 December 1862, p.3)) In his 1888 diary, TLM-P visits a chemist in Newcastle only to discover he was not a son of 'my old friend Boyer Shaw'.((9 August))\\ | In contrast, boys were sent away to school when still young. In 1862, Thomas de M. M-P and Morres attended 'Mr. Shaw's school, Brisbane' known as the Collegiate School - a Church of England school whose headmaster was the Rev. Bowyer E. Shaw. It was designed for 'sons of the gentry' and charged accordingly: £80 per year for boarders. Perhaps for that reason, it did not last long.((//The Brisbane Courier//, 17 February 1912, p.12)) We only know the two boys were there in 1862 because of a report in the newspaper that Tom won the prize for English and Morres the fourth class prize for Latin.((The Courier, 22 December 1862, p.3)) In his 1888 diary, TLM-P visits a chemist in Newcastle only to discover he was not a son of 'my old friend Boyer Shaw'.((9 August))\\ |