User talk:Carbon Caryatid/Reading Abbey Girls' School

Later on, these might prove useful.

LEL

Apparently the poet had quite a fan club, fed by her unexpected death. January 1845 "A Walk from London to Fulham" in Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country Volume 31. Several pages about Hans Place and particularly LEL, who had died about 7 years before.

French St Quentins

Unlikely to be the right ones, since Dominique retired in London in 1809. But charming nonetheless. I paraphrase Travels through the south of France: and in the interior of the provinces of Provence and Languedoc, in the years 1807 and 1808, by a route never before performed.

In June 1807 an American soldier takes a pleasure holiday through France, and stumbles upon the St Quentins. His name is Ninian Pinkney, so he must be related to the one we have an article on, a generation later. He sets off from Boulogne "as soon as the heat of the day had declined", intending to ride to Montreuil, about 40 km away. As the setting sun hit the windowpanes, he is riding through lanes that remind him of Warwickshire. On the summit of a hill are a village and a church; on the left hand side of the road is an ancient chateau in well-kept grounds. A garden party (fete champetre) was in progress. A guest explains to him that the owner is M St Quentin, senator and district judge, and the celebrations are a birthday party for his wife. A marquee is painted with the birth of Venus. "It was necessary, however, for the justice of the compliment, that the Venus should be a likeness of Madame St Quentin, who was neither very young nor very handsome. The painter, however, got out of the scrape very well." He visits the village, where the peasants wear straw hats, an industry M St Quentin has built up. They meet a local lad reading history, whom St Q has encouraged, and intends to send to Paris for more education. Pinkney concludes his ride by moonlight.

Suggestions for the title

I am soliciting comments, before it goes live. Carbon Caryatid (talk) 16:06, 18 November 2016 (UTC)