Miss Bastow

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Miss Bastow was headmistress of a school in Launceston, Tasmania in 1863 where young ladies were given a proper "English" education, including drawing classes.
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teacher, was the headmistress of Buckland House at Launceston in 1863, a boarding and day school for young ladies which included drawing lessons in a curriculum which boasted 'all the usual branches of a sound English education’. They cost 6d extra per lesson (as did French and German). Miss Bastow was presumably a relative of the Hobart Town architect Henry Robert Bastow, who had come to Tasmania from England in 1860.

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1992
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2011

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