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Summary

The Fortunes of Philippa (1906) is a schoolgirl novel by Angela Brazil.  Excerpt from the book:  My father looked me up and down with a glance of despair which would have been comical if it had not seemed at the same time somewhat pathetic.  "I can do the fifth proposition in Euclid," I objected, "and the Latin Grammar as far as irregular verbs."  My father shook his head.  "That might help you a little if you were a boy in a public school, but it's not all that your mother would have wished. You've not been taught a note of music, you can't speak French or dance a quadrille, and if it came to a question of fine sewing, I'm afraid you'd scarcely know which was the right end of your needle!"  The list of my deficiencies was so dreadfully true that I had no excuse to bring forward, and my father continued.  "Besides, it's absurd to attempt to educate you in this spot, where you've no opportunity of mixing with cultured people. I wish you to see England, and to have companions of your own age."

Duration: about 4 hours (03:43:41)
Publishing date: 2019-02-28; Unabridged; Copyright Year: 2019. Copyright Statment: —