Excerpt from Memoir of Rosamond Davenport-Hill After this she was sent for a short time to a boarding school at Upper Clapton, and then from the age of fourteen to twenty-one she studied at home under an excellent visiting governess, Miss Marianne Fry, continuing after wards with a tutor for a few special subjects. At the same time, her mother having become partly an invalid, much of the housekeeping fell to her care, so that she gained a practical knowledge of cookery and laundry work, which was of great service to her when in later years she directed her attention to organising these departments of the London School Board. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.