Schoolmistress

Shenstone's "Schoolmistress," published in an unfinished shape in 1737 and, as finally completed, in 1742.

A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century 1886

The "Schoolmistress," of which I know not what claim it has to stand among the Moral Works, is surely the most pleasing of Shenstone's performances.

Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 2 Samuel Johnson 1746

He learned to read of an old dame, whom his poem of the "Schoolmistress" has delivered to posterity; and soon received such delight from books, that he was always calling for fresh entertainment, and expected that, when any of the family went to market, a new book should be brought him, which, when it came, was in fondness carried to bed and laid by him.

Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 2 Samuel Johnson 1746

The only poems in this series that have gained permanent footing in the literature are Shenstone's "Schoolmistress" and Thomson's "Cast of

A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century 1886

His Mother was a Schoolmistress, and instructed her own Children with the others.

Letter 20 2009

April, 1825, appeared two prose sketches full of humour and nice observation of character, entitled ‘Boarding School Reminiscences, ’ and ‘The Complaint of the Schoolmistress, ’ the first of her prose writings ever printed.

Alaric Watts: A Narrative of His Life 2008

The Schoolmistress and other stories, by Anton Chekhov

The Schoolmistress and other stories 2004

Schoolmistress Johnsen talked about what she had learned, watchmakers and the Alps and Calvin — “Yes, those are the only three things in a thousand years,” said the Associate Master, his face quite altered and pale with suppressed rage.

Look Back on Happiness 2003

How well I remember that day at Tore Peak, when Schoolmistress

Look Back on Happiness 2003

Vendale and is pitied and kindly treated by the old Schoolmistress, but it is not until Tom finds Grimes suffering his punishment in the chimney flues that the reader learns what the poor Irishwoman knew about Grimes, and that the schoolmistress was Grimes's poor ill-treated mother.

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide Charles Herbert Sylvester