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born 1933 England

Claire Tomalin (née Delavenay, born 20 June 1933) is an English biographer and literary editor. In 1976 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

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Boarding schools for girls were not hard to find in the 1780s, not least because keeping a school was one of the very few ways in which a woman could hope to earn a respectable living, but accounts of what went on in them make depressing, and sometimes horrifying, reading.

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