A Proper Education for Girls (46 page)

E
LAINE DI
R
OLLO
was born in Ormskirk, Lancashire, and now lives in Edinburgh, where she is a lecturer at Napier University. She holds a Ph.D. in the social history of medicine from Edinburgh University.
A Proper Education for Girls
is her first novel.

This book was set in Fournier MT, a typeface created by Monotype in 1924, based on type cut by Pierre Simon Fournier circa 1742 in Fournier's
Manual Typographie
.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the
product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to
actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2008, 2009 by Elaine diRollo

All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Crown Publishers, an imprint of the
Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
www.crownpublishing.com

CROWN and the Crown colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.

Originally published in slightly different form in Great Britain by Chatto & Windus,
an imprint of The Random House Group Limited, London, in 2008.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Rollo, Elaine di.
A proper education for girls / Elaine diRollo.—1st ed.
p.   cm.
1. Sisters—England—Fiction. 2. Twins—England—Fiction. 3. Fathers
and daughters—Fiction. 4. Disinheritance—Fiction. 5. England—Fiction.
6. India—Fiction. I. Title.
PR6118.O42P43 2009
823′.92—dc22     2008050523

eISBN: 978-0-307-45218-4

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