Historical Crush – Blue Cereal Education https://bluecerealeducation.com Sun, 04 Jun 2023 20:20:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://files.bluecerealeducation.com/2023/06/BowlIcon.png Historical Crush – Blue Cereal Education https://bluecerealeducation.com 32 32 Helen Churchill Candee – An Introduction https://bluecerealeducation.com/blog/helen-churchill-candee-introduction/ Mon, 25 Mar 2019 22:22:47 +0000 http://localhost:8888/bluecerealwp/blog/helen-churchill-candee-introduction/ Helen Churchill CandeeHelen started her formal education in one of America’s first kindergartens, then attended several girls’ boarding schools of the sort only available to a certain quality of family – and even then mostly only those in New England. Before she was a teenager she spoke and wrote multiple languages, was schooled in grace and etiquette, and probably knew more history and literature than a majority of adult men in the nation at the time. She was particularly inspired, according to one diary entry, by an event at which Charles Dickens read aloud from one of his works.

How many of you have heard Dickens live? My point exactly.

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