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In 1909, London, Mr Ward a wealthy factory owner, who is often seen but other as strange, as he's hired a young butler and promote a working-class worker to run his businesses instead of middle classes. Now he sits in his living room, waiting for a tutor Mr scout to arrive. He wants to do something even more socially unacceptable, to hire the tutor Mr Scout for his daughter, Alice. However, Alice’s mother, Egana, has other plans for her young daughter Alice. Egana Misson is for Alice to accomplish something she was never able to do, to marry up and gain a title. With this ambition, Egana Hires the most expensive and best Governess in the country, Miss Miller. To gather, they plan Alice training for womanhood. nine-year-old Alice, Loves reading, learning and her dance lesson but hate stitching as the needle hurts her fingers. She throws her self into both education, wanting to have fun and enjoy the education she has been given. 11 years later, after the Great war 20-year-old, Alice is still trying to discover what she wants to do with her life, but one night at one of her mother dinner parties meets two people that will make everything even more confusing. Miss Lilly cook a middle-age Scholar at Oxford Lady Margets Hall who finds Alice's education impressive and suggests that Alice should look into applying. then over dinner, she is sat next to Alfred, the air to the duke of Wessex, who makes her blush and laugh. Will she follow a world of learning, or fall in love and take on household duties? Will she be Oxford Bound?
In 1909, London, Mr Ward a wealthy factory owner, who is often seen but other as strange, as he's hired a young butler and promote a working-class worker to run his businesses instead of middle classes. Now he sits in his living room, waiting for a tutor Mr scout to arrive. He wants to do something even more socially unacceptable, to hire the tutor Mr Scout for his daughter, Alice.
However, Alice’s mother, Egana, has other plans for her young daughter Alice. Egana Misson is for Alice to accomplish something she was never able to do, to marry up and gain a title. With this ambition, Egana Hires the most expensive and best Governess in the country, Miss Miller. To gather, they plan Alice training for womanhood.
nine-year-old Alice, Loves reading, learning and her dance lesson but hate stitching as the needle hurts her fingers. She throws her self into both education, wanting to have fun and enjoy the education she has been given.
11 years later, after the Great war 20-year-old, Alice is still trying to discover what she wants to do with her life, but one night at one of her mother dinner parties meets two people that will make everything even more confusing.
Miss Lilly cook a middle-age Scholar at Oxford Lady Margets Hall who finds Alice's education impressive and suggests that Alice should look into applying.
then over dinner, she is sat next to Alfred, the air to the duke of Wessex, who makes her blush and laugh.
Will she follow a world of learning, or fall in love and take on household duties?
Will she be Oxford Bound?
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Alice Education
1909, London
Alice knelt on top of the window seat in her new school
room, looking out over the busy streets of London, at a sea of
umbrellas as the rain fell across the city. She was wearing her
favourite dress, light blue and short sleeved, the cotton fabric
draping around her knees and tied at her waist with a white belt.
Her governess Miss Miller had made Alice sit for 20 minutes
while she forced her long light brown hair into tight plaits, tied
with a cream ribbon.
Behind her at an angle stood a small smart wooden table with
two chairs placed either side and at the back of the room stood
a beautiful handmade bookcase, painted with her favourite
flowers: buttercups and daisies.
Her father had taken her to the bookshop and allowed her to
pick out three books to start her collection. Alice spent hours
carefully trying to read the blurb of each, until she decided
to buy two books by Beatrix Potter and one book filled with
numbers and other long words that she didn’t understand but
wanted to. Her father helped her work out how much they
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