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NOVELISTS > novelist, dramatist > Charles Dickens
Minerva House was...
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Minerva House was 'a finishing establishment for young ladies,' where some twenty girls of the ages from thirteen to nineteen inclusive, acquired a smattering of everything and a knowledge of nothing.
Source: Sketches by Boz, Tales, ch. 3, Sentiment (1833 --35).
-- Charles Dickens, (Feb 7 1812-1870), English novelist, dramatist; He was one of most prolific and popular English novelists, e.g., A Christmas Carol, 1843 & Tale of Two Cities, 1859.