Six to Sixteen

Six to Sixteen, by Juliana Horatia
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Title: Six to Sixteen A Story for Girls
Author: Juliana Horatia Ewing
Release Date: September 23, 2006 [EBook #19360]
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SIX TO SIXTEEN. A STORY FOR GIRLS.
BY JULIANA HORATIA EWING.
LONDON: SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN
KNOWLEDGE, NORTHUMBERLAND AVENUE, W.C. NEW
YORK: E. & J. B. YOUNG & CO.

[Published under the direction of the General Literature Committee.]

DEDICATION.
TO MISS ELEANOR LLOYD.
MY DEAR ELEANOR,
I wish that this little volume were worthier of being dedicated to you.
It is, I fear, fragmentary as a mere tale, and cannot even plead as an
excuse for this that it embodies any complete theory on the vexed
question of the upbringing of girls. Indeed, I should like to say that it
contains no attempt to paint a model girl or a model education, and was
originally written as a sketch of domestic life, and not as a vehicle for

theories.
That it does touch by the way on a few of the many strong opinions I
have on the subject you will readily discover; though it is so long since
we held discussions together that I hardly know how far your views
will now agree with mine.
If, however, it seems to you to illustrate a belief in the joys and benefits
of intellectual hobbies, I do not think that we shall differ on that point;
and it may serve, here and there, to recall one, nearly as dear to you as
to me, for whom the pleasures of life were at least doubled by such
interests, and who found in them no mean resource under a burden
heavier than common of life's pain.
That, whatever labour I may spend on this or any other bit of
work--whatever changes or confirmations time and experience may
bring to my views of people and things--I cannot now ask her approval
of the one, or delight in the play of her strong intellect and bright wit
over the other, is an unhealable sorrow with which no one sympathizes
more fully than you.
This story was written before her death: it has been revised without her
help.
Such as it is, I beg you to accept it in affectionate remembrance of old
times and of many common hobbies of our girlhood in my Yorkshire
home and in yours.
J. H. E.

CONTENTS.
CHAP. PAGE
Introduction 11
I. My Pretty Mother--Ayah--Company 20

II. The Cholera Season--My Mother Goes Away--My Sixth Birthday
26
III. The Bullers--Matilda takes Me up--We Fall Out--Mr. George 34
IV. Sales--Matters of Principle--Mrs. Minchin Quarrels with the
Bride--Mrs. Minchin Quarrels with Everybody--Mrs. Minchin is
Reconciled--The Voyage Home--A Death on Board 40
V. A Home Station--What Mrs. Buller thought of it--What Major
Buller thought of it 53
VI. Dress and Manner--I Examine Myself--My Great-Grandmother 59
VII. My Great-Grandmother--The Duchess's Carriage--Mrs. O'Connor
is Curious 67
VIII. A Family History 73
IX. Hopes and Expectations--Dreams and Daydreams--The
Vine--Elspeth--My Great-Grandfather 84
X. Thomas the Cat--My Great-Grandfather's Sketches--Adolphe is my
Friend--My Great-great-great-Grandfather Disturbs my Rest--I Leave
The Vine 96
XI. Matilda's News--Our Governess--Major Buller turned
Tutor--Eleanor Arkwright 103
XII. Poor Matilda--The Awkward Age--Mrs. Buller takes Counsel with
her Friends--The 'Milliner and Mantuamaker'--Medical Advice--The
Major Decides 120
XIII. At School--The Lilac Bush--Bridget's Posies--Summer-- Health
138
XIV. Miss Mulberry--Discipline and Recreation--Madame--
Conversation--Eleanor's Opinion of the Drawing-master-- Miss
Ellen's--Eleanor's Apology 146

XV. Eleanor's Theories reduced to Practice--Studies--The
Arithmetic-master 159
XVI. Eleanor's Reputation--The Mad Gentleman--Fancies and
Follies--Matilda's Health--The New Doctor 166
XVII. Eleanor's Health--Holy Living--The Prayer of the Son of Sirach
175
XVIII. Eleanor and I are late for Breakfast--The School Breaks
Up--Madame and Bridget 179
XIX. Northwards--The Black Country--The Stone Country 183
XX. The Vicarage--Keziah--The Dear Boys--The Cook--A Yorkshire
Tea--Bed-fellows 191
XXI. Gardening--Drinkings--The Moors--Wading--Batrachosperma--
The Church--Little Margaret 197
XXII. A