under-matrons

Updated: May 23, 2025

There was a board of managers, ladies who sometimes came to look at the dormitories and the bath-rooms and then went away again in their carriages; there was the matron, Mrs. Pitbladder, who had been there four or five years, she thought, but wasn't certain; there were several under-matrons, who acted as teachers to the children. What did the children study?

Dorothy Richardson - The Long Day: The Story of a New York Working Girl As Told by Herself