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A modern girls' school, equipped as scores are now equipped throughout the country, was of course not to be found in 1858, when I first became a school boarder, or in 1867, when I ceased to be one.

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Mary Augusta Ward
Age: 68 †
Born: 1851
Born: June 11
Died: 1920
Died: March 24
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