Book 2010

The education of Bet

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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Language: English
Published: 2010

Sex role -- Fiction
Schools -- Fiction
Social classes -- Fiction
Orphans -- Fiction

Denied an education because of both her gender and background, sixteen-year-old Elizabeth cuts her hair and alters suits belonging to Will, her wealthy patron's grandnephew, to take his place at school while Will pursues a military career in nineteenth-century England.