] } the young Lord Lymington who's father was Lord Portsmouth.

] It was usual practice among the higher nobility to give the eldest son a courtesy title chosen from the lower ranking titles that the father held.

I have to mind my Ls and Ps. I don't know where I got that Lord S from, it should have been Lord P as in Portsmouth.

I had hoped that someone could tell us more about the schools for girls in the late 18th century. I haven't got time to look for it myself.

I read something interesting in the 'Memoir' by J.E.Austen-Leigh.
He writes about Elizabeth de Feuillide who was to become a friend of the Austen girls(and boys) that "She was a clever woman, and highly accomplished after the French rather than the English mode".
And what does that mean I wonder. What was the difference? Was the French education more sophisticated in some way?

He continues"The sisters may have been more indebted to this cousin than to Mrs Latournelle's teaching for the considerable knowledge of French wich they possessed".

Well, Jane had to educate herself. Reading(and writing) and studying people,that was her university.

Leif Gn