The education of Bet
By: by Lauren Baratz-Logsted.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780547223087
Subjects: Sex role -- Fiction; Schools -- Fiction; Social classes -- Fiction; Orphans -- Fiction; Great Britain -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: 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.