...very capable of distinguishing, take care she does not mistake pert folly for wit and humor, or rhyme for poetry, which are the common errors of young people,...consequences. The second caution to be given her (and which is most absolutely necessary) is to conceal whatever learning she attains, with as much solicitude as...

...very capable of distinguishing, take care she does not mistake pert folly for wit and humour, or rhyme most absolutely necessary) is to conceal whatever learning she attains, with as much solicitude as...

...secreted their savings from the Turkish Pasha. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu exclaims, "A young woman must conceal whatever learning she attains with as much...solicitude as she would hide crookedness or lameness." It was not until 1848 in Britain that a woman's college, Queen's College, Hartley Street, was established,...

...many years to come, were not especially enlightened.6' The transgression of the 'feminine' [She must] conceal whatever learning she attains with as much solicitude as she would hide Crookedness and Lameness. The Parade of it can only serve to draw on her the Envy and consequently the most inveterate...

...daughter, Lady Bute, to offer the following warning: "The second caution to be given her (and which is most absolutely necessary) is to conceal whatever Learning...as much solicitude as she would hide crookedness or lameness."38 A woman who knew Latin or Greek was considered unmarriageable, if not mad. Understandably...

...can ensure 'she does not mistake pert Folly for Wit and humour, or Rhyme for Poetry'. Then she must 'conceal whatever Learning she attains, with as much...solicitude as she would hide crookedness or lameness'. Lady Mary probably borrowed this advice (but not her bitter comparison of learning to disability) from...

...girls who could think. (Lady Mary Wortley Montagu warned her granddaughter, a gifted mathematician, to "conceal whatever learning she attains with as...solicitude as she would hide crookedness or lameness.") 7 Ridiculous, thought Mary, who seems to have been born avid for 20 knowledge and envied her brothers,...

...Bute about the education of her granddaughter: "The second caution to be given her (and which is most absolutely necessary) is to conceal whatever learning...solicitude as she would hide crookedness or lameness" (Letters January 1753, 237). The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already...

...Arbuthnot were both socially and artistically contemptible."5 Lady Mary would advise her granddaughter to "conceal whatever learning she attains, with as much solicitude as she would hide crookedness or lameness."6 Swift may have been no more class-conscious than anyone else in an age in which distinctions...