Complex sentence: Her father was a provost, and obeying his wishes, she aborted her artistic training, and she later became a teacher at Sylow's School for Girls and the Industrial School for Women for twenty years.
Split into simpler sentences: Her father was a provost, and obeying his wishes, she aborted her artistic training. She later became a teacher at Sylow's School for Girls and the Industrial School for Women for twenty years.