Prize Certificate Issued by the Ladies’ College, London

Calligraphic script by an unknown hand

Coloured ink

4 x 4 inches

Studies for Stories from Girls’ Lives, on the obverse of the pictorial frontispiece

This prize certificate, presented to Jenny Lloyd for ‘general improvement and good conduct’, is hand-written in blue and red coloured inks. The school, in Little Queen Street, London, was set up by a Ms. Letitia Anglio as a fee-paying finishing college for young ladies. Here, as in others of their type, behaviour, decorum and preparation for a life of middle-class respectability were far more important than acquiring an education.

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