Sarah Jackson<p>While researching 18thC schools for the novel I greatly enjoyed these delightful catty textbook titles by schoolmaster John Holmes: </p><p>A New Grammar of the Latin Tongue... freed from the many obscurities, defects, superfluities, and errors, which render the common grammar an insufferable impediment to the progress of education (1732)</p><p>1/2</p><p><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/18thCentury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>18thCentury</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/EducationHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EducationHistory</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/Education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Education</span></a></p>